We started the morning rather leisurely after a lateish night and therefore skipped the lounge breakfast and instead headed to tim hortons for some Canadian comfort food. After this was polished off we decided to head down to ground zero.We hadn't really done much advanced research on this so when we arrived we were faced with what is still a massive building site with not much up close viewing of anything. We had a wander around what we could before deciding...

We started the day with a bagel in the hotel but were left unsatisfied, so we headed to Tim Hortons for a donut- yum. From there we caught the subway to Battery Park where we jumped on the ferry which took us to Liberty Island to see the Statue of Liberty. We had prebooked a visit to the Crown of the statue as there are only a few tickets available daily and these are normally sold out up to 6 months in advance- so we were lucky to get some tickets. The first par...

Our first full day in NYC started with a bagel in the lounge in the hotel- it was ok, we were dying to get out to explore the city and get something better to eat later! We had decided to spend the day meandering through Central Park- which took all morning. We walked the entire length and saw just how busy and well used the park is. After our bellies started to rumble, we headed to a hotdog stop that we had heard about and got a quick something something.After a...

The excitement of the latest holiday was slightly tempered by the sight of the fog coming in, after keeping an eye on flightradar24 with tuffers in the BA lounge at ABZ (he looked worse for wear and had the same suit on from the night before when we checked why he was in Aberdeen on the tinternet), we were pleased to see our plane land just as the fog lifted.We arrived slightly late into Heathrow and made our way to the elusive Concorde room entrance door, this l...