Last day in NYC today so feeling rather sad. Pleased i'm not going straight home and still have lots of other places to see first! The guy outside the hotel whistled for a cab to take me to the Empire State Building. You'd think i'd have been excited by this but I wasn't because he used an actual whistle! Cheat! Anyway got a military discount on a slightly more expensive ticket which bought me a ride on the New York Sky Ride, a simulated 'fly' over the city. Kind...

I always seem to be eating and drinking when i write these blogs. This time i'm in a nice harbour side restaurant called il Porto in lower Manhatten which i walked past the other day and decided to come back to. Its rather spoilt on this occassion however, due to loud basey music coming from some DJ'ing entertainment down the road. Still, the sun is shining and i have a cold beer in my hand so it's all good. I took a walk down Broadway this morning on my way he...

Life is pretty good right now. i'm sitting outside in a very lovely restaurant called Brasserie in 25 degree+ heat, a stones throw away from the Rockefeller Centre sipping on a cold glass of pinot grigio. The man in front of me is amusing me by speaking loudly on his mobile phone about a diamond bracelette. I thought for moment that he was a mafioso but decided against this when i saw his phone was bright pink. In two hours, when it gets dark, im going to go to ...

I asked my hotel reception the best way to catch a cab to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The man looked at me blankly and asked 'a taxi?'. I always thought they called em cabs round these parts but never mind! Anyway I was directed to the chappy outside the entrace who kindly put me in a 'cab' and directed it to where i wanted to go. I stood in the longest queue on earth to get in to the Met but it was a beautiful 28 degree sunny day so couldn't complain! They...

I was picked up from JfK airport by the Go Air Link NYC bus and taken to Grand Central Terminal (incorrectly often known as Grand Central Station) where i planned to get a taxi to the Warwick New York Hotel where i'll be staying for the next 5 days. It was a pretty mundane journy until we drove over a hill heading towards Midtown and i was faced with what seemed, the very familiar manhatten skyline. This accompanied with my first sighting of a yellow cab and yell...