With nothing special planned for today we headed towards Times Square and the museums of Ripley’s Believe It or Not and Madame Tussauds. We spent 24 bucks on Ripley’s and got dissapointed and disgusted. We decided to skip Madame Tussauds right now, and headed for some souveneir stores instead, TV merchandice and New York stuff. [...]
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On day four the main attraction was the Conan O’Brien show at NBC on Rockefeller Center to which we had got tickets. As usual on TV everything is much smaller in reality, but it was a very fun experience and everybody had a good time. One is not allowed to take pictures inside the studio, [...]
The trip to Statue of Libert was successful, we took the ferry and had lunch on Liberty Island, took some pictures and then headed back to Manhattan, the monument access was closed this day for some reason. We skipped Ellis Island and decided to continue on to Ground Zero via Wall Street. Ground Zero was [...]
The second day in New York City we decided to go to Central Park, among many other things. The weather was much less humid today, but still very warm and sweaty. We walked around the park abit, and visited Central Park Zoo and looked at some colorful birds and also polar bears. After the Zoo [...]
The first day, after settling down abit at the hotel room, we spent walking around on Manhattan. We were abit surprised of the level of stress everywhere, crazy traffic and people everywhere, it takes a while to get used to. We walked to Times Square and ate at McDonalds (it tastes exactly the same as [...]
We arrived at Newark Liberty Airport and after security check we got outside and was completely struck by the unbelievable warmth and humidity, it felt so damp, we were not prepared for that. It was about 26 degrees but the humidity and the smell (sort of car exhausts, fried foods and locker-room towels mixed into [...]
The flight to New York went very well, the Airbus 340 felt very luxurious, touch screens with video on-demand, games and flight information, and also the food was pretty good. The 8 hour flight went surprisingly fast even though you suffer from some headaches.
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