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Dearest Blogfans...tears flood the keyboard, are they tears, or is it rain!?! It has p**sed down ALL day today in NYC, the travel gods are preparing us for our trip back to the UK tomorrow and all that beautiful February weather you are getting!!
Dearest Blogfans....due to the hundreds of messages we have received via email, message board and dirty Bolivian pigeon post, we are giving you, THE Blogfans, one final post from the most excessive city we have ever seen, New York City, come on......
Monday morning, February 22nd, 2010, we climb up that old bird, Miss Liberty and take a right good gawk out of her helmet over the Manhatten skyline taking in the glistening sunshine reflecting off the harbour. A beauteous sight if ever we have seen one. We were first up for the day, (you'd expect nothing less!!) and we ran up that spiral staircase, all 300+ steps! It reminded us of the Grimsby Tower climb we did with Chris, this was a lot less scary though, and the view was just slightly better over NYC than Grimsby! Sorry Chris and Caz!
A quick visit to the Statue of Liberty museum brought nothing more than a lot of mutual France-USA bumming. We left. Quickly. Before being sick.
Viewing Manhatten from the island was one of our favourite views all trip and its only when you see these huge buildings that you realise how HUGE the Twin Towers used to be.
We visited the 9/11 Memorial Museum and looked at the plans for the regeneration of the World Trade Centre site. The plans look pretty damn impressive, we'll be back to have a look in a few years.
Our walking tours of cities this trip have brought some of our best days, and yesterday was no exception....we walked for 14 hours around Manhatten. 14 HOURS!!!!! We took in all the classic tourist sights, Empire State and Chrysler Building (amazing and beautiful) UN Building (rubbish and ugly), Grand Central Station, Trump Towers, Rockafeller, Times Square (its even better than on the TV!!!) Central Park, Bloomingdales and Barneys (for Jen's sanity and dreams of future clothes purchases on shopping trips which don't happen after a six month trip).
Our day was ended perfectly with a Broadway show, a brand spanking new one, called A Behanding in Spokane. This was a GREAT show, if this goes to the UK, go and see it, we'll come too. It was hilarious. Starred Christopher Walken, Jen's old man crush.
Today we didn't walk for 14 hours. No no. It was raining. Hard. So we hit the Natural History Museum. (The Museum of Modern Art shuts on Tuesdays). The Natural History Museum is the one from the movie Night at the Museum. We looked for the artifacts from the film and found one. ONE. We left thoroughly disappointed.
And so that brings us to now, almost home time! We cannot wait to make your eyes and ears bleed from our thousands of photos and millions of stories, a fraction of which have made it onto our blog site. Publishers have been beating down our door asking us to be travel writers. Have a look at our new photos and vids if you haven't already.
Thanks for all the messages since we have been away, its been great hearing from you!
See all of you as soon as we can!!
Till next time Blogfans.........xxxxx
Ah yes, Jen promised a reflective blog for the last one, so i reflected on the last two days, if you want some more reflection, read on, if not, do one.
Favourite country: Argentina.
Best food: Argentinian STEAK/Belize LOBSTER.
Best trip: Inca Trail/Galapagos.
Best bus ride: 22 hours from Iguazu Falls to Buenos Aires. Whisky. Beer. And then Champagne.
Worst bus ride. 11 hours from Uyuni to La Paz. Driving over rocks for 11 BLOODY HOURS. Dirty Bolivians.
Best people: Aussies and Canadians.
Things we have found out: Everyone generally hates the British.
Best day: A morning hiking dead womans pass on the Inca Trail followed by an afternoon swimming with a sea lion in the Galapagos, then an evening out in Buenos Aires and an early morning space shuttle launch in Florida.
Our next trip: Japan. Then Southeast Asia. Then a tour of the European Capitals. Squeeze in Australia and New Zealand somewhere too.
Best beer: Imperial, Costa Rica.
Best waterfalls: Iguazu.
Did you know there are now Blogfans across three continents?!
Thats it, its all over. We are absolutely devastated. But we have loved every second and we will now be on at you all to go to all the places we have been lucky enough to see.
We spoke to a nice old lady last night outside the theatre. She asked us about our US trip. We told her we had driven from Miami to New York via Niagara falls. She told us about these mysterious, more beautiful falls somewhere in deepest darkest Brazil. We told her we had seen them. To which she responded, have you ever been to Africa? We politely answered in the affirmative. Then she threw Galapagos at us. Tick. Switzerland? Next. Russia? Cambodia?
Now there's an idea....
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