Another day with hours of walking. We caught the metro down to Wall St and walked back to the Sept 11 memorial, got the free tickets and we were in. Had to go through a couple of security checks which is understandable :-( It's very well done, the names of all who died in the WTC, the planes and the earlier bombing all engraved around the edges of the 2 pools. Between the 2 "footprint" pools they've got trees, patches of lawn and ivy. One tree is different to th...

We were up early to head the couple of blocks to breakfast. It was better than expected with excellent muffins and pastries, coffee, cereals, good breads and some cold cuts. It's a nice change to not have to take my own protein :-) We had a bit of whinge re the room probs, TV, door handles etc and Georgia said no probs, we will take care of that today and just don't pay for last night. I said it was a bit generous, things weren't that bad but she insisted so fo...

The first decision of the day; pay a huge toll to cross over into NYC in little time or go the scenic route and take 2.5 hours? In the end the scenic route took a little over 3 hours cos we kept stopping at viewpoints. Upstate NJ was a bit of a revelation to me, nothing like the NJ I remember. Mind you, I was always in the area close to Manhattan so it shouldn't have been a surprise. Some spectacular views over the Hudson to NY that could only have been better...