18th August - Our 7th wedding anniversary, so thank you for our cards, emails, Cadbury's and well wishes. Naturally, we slept in and planned on doing very little today; except the blog needed doing and we hadn't had the time to write it last week, with having visitors. After a few hours writing and uploading we decided to have a picnic in Bryant Park (very near to Grand Central Station, the New York Public Library and the Empire State Building) as the sun set and...

11th August - We got up and headed on the subway to Brooklyn to take a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge towards the beautiful Manhattan skyline.As we walked across the sky changed colour and it was obvious that a big storm as coming and the sky changed a really odd yellow and green colour, something like I have never seen before.As we hurried over the bridge and into City Hall Park the heavens opened and the rain came down and Anita, being the only sensible person w...

4th August - We took a walk down to Macy's department store on 34th Street.This famous department store is huge, a full block long and very close to the Empire State Building but we were here for one thing only, Kirsty had seen some flip flops called "Fit-Flops"which are meant to give your legs a complete work out while you are wearing them and decided she had to have some.After seemingly ages spent searching the huge department store we finally found t...

28th July - After a late turn around, we took a walk south from our apartment, through busy Times Square, down to Wall Street where the United States Stock Exchange is - 4.5 miles in the blistering heat through the familiar sounding districts of SOHO (south of Houston - pronounced Howston - Street), Tribeca (TRIangle BElow CAnal street) and Greenwich Village which have all shaken off their 'French Connection' seediness since the 70s and are now very cosmopolitan,...

25th July - Bizarrely, we've not been getting tired, so we've not got to sleep until about two or three in the morning for the past few days (don't know why) but this was a problem this morning as we had to be up at 04.30 - and the taxi driver arrived early too! Manchester to Dublin was a formality but we only had an hour and a half to get the NY flight at Dublin and we knew, from our last trip that US Immigration is done in Dublin before you board the flight. As...