Today was Keith’s birthday, which we started with a French breakfast in the back garden. Seb and Becky had bought him some air pods as a present which he spent most the day setting up and playing with. Everyone kindly indulged me in some shopping. In an almost deserted outlet shopping centre there were some tremendous bargains to be had. Similar in theory to Woodbury Common outside New York. The Paris outlet centre is about an hours drive from Paris itself and...

Technically speaking our long weekend started on Thursday. I had worked 07:00-14:30 at work to make a mad dash for our 16:35 flight. In the end we were there in enough time to pick up champagne for Becky’s parents & have a drink at the metro bar in the airport, before boarding our CityJet service to Charles De Gaulle. On board we had some very cold wine with our ‘vegetarian’ non de-script sandwich. We played a word game on Becky’s I pad to pass the tw...

Today was the first time that we both felt slightly worse for Wear. Which was understandable after a big birthday out in the sun. Still we had things we needed to do before our trip came to an end. While getting ready I purchased our tickets online for the One World Trade Center. This proved to be a massive time saver as when we arrived the line for tickets was round the building. Inside we had to queue, but it kept on moving. We did slightly regret not just pay...

BIRTHDAY! I woke feeling fresh and decided to head into Prospect Park to run the loop. 3.68 miles in 23 degree heat, 91% humidity setting off just before 9am, ain’t bad for my fist day as a 34 year old. Stefan once again kindly made bacon and eggs. I ate mine with a lovely Bagel, while Becky and I both Irished up our coffees. Stefan, Becky and I set off on a mad dash to try and make the noon sailing of the beast. Stefan dashed down the stairs to grab the Q t...

After a tidy round the Air BnB we set off back to Brooklyn with a journey time of 2hrs 45mins. We made it all the way without stopping and therefore hit the city just after lunch time so traffic was not a huge problem for us. Becky and I then headed into Manhattan to go to the Top of the Rock. Today being the final day we could use our city passes. As there was a lot of cloud cover it wasn’t busy and we were able to get a ticket to go up within twenty minutes ...