Tuesday 4thTime for the long journey home today, our twelve and half hour flight to Dubai leaving at 10.40am, and we arranged some transport to JFK airport with a car service recommended by the owner of our apartment! We got up at 6.30am and did a last minute clean through, packed the last of the stuff into our cases and were waiting downstairs at 7.30am as instructed, having been advised that the traffic would be pretty horrendous at that time and it would take ...

MONDAY 3rdOur last full day in the USA and today was our trip out to New Canaan in Connetticut to see Chris Nielson and as the train trip was about an hour we got going quite early and headed for Grand Central Station having to squash into the Subway with thousands of workers heading into the city.The Metro North train left bang on time and we headed out through the slums of Harlem toward Stamford which was our first stop. Sights along a railway line are never to...

SUNDAY 2ndThe second day of 2011, our 29th wedding anniversary, and the weather was a bit iffy - low cloud, a bit of fog and some showers! Mumsie and I headed off early to get our bus tour of Brooklyn, catching a train down to Bowling Green and walking across Battery Park to the Grayline pickup point, only to find that the Brooklyn tour was cancelled and in fact had not been running since the big storm! Many thanks to the Grayline ticket seller in Times Square wh...

NEW YEARS EVEFriday in the Big Apple and we were off reasonably early to go shopping - funny how women can get ready very quickly when there is shopping mentioned - and headed straight to 5th Avenue, via a couple of train swaps and a few blocks walk!! Tiffany was the major target and it was not long before I was considerably lighter in the wallet and Mumsie was clutching a little turquoise bag containing a little gold key! Katie, however, had trouble deciding so ...

NEW YORK CITYSlept in until 8.30am this morning, very unusual for me!!!! Grabbed a quick cuppa and toast with oily American peanut butter and then made our way to our Subway stop to quickly get an all day pass then catch the train to Grand Central Station to meet up with Chris Neilson, Katie's friend from The AFL Store days who has been working here for the past 18 months or so.Chris was rapt to see us as he has not seen anyone from home since he left, so the...