New York Travel Blogs - Page 7

These are the colors of NYC in the Spring... stay tuned for more :o)

Friday May 16, 2008. I took my son's friends who were visiting us to Harlem and upper Manhattan.http://www.columbia.edu/~nad7/neighborhood/160-170.htmlWe visted The Cloisters. This is a part of the Metropolitan Museum and althoug we drove therethere is a bus that goes there from Manhattan. Thi…

Parts of Washington Park were originally the State Street Cemetary.  By the 1850's public opinion was shifting to support the expanding the much smaller parade ground into the urban planned park we have today, so the cemetary and other lots were purchased and…

Friends and me arrived soon in the morning in Chelsea area. We walked then to the hostel where we booked few weeks ago. It's called the "Chelsea Hostel". It's a nice place if you don't want to pay a lot for the night (About 34 $ per night). 1st Day: We let the luggages at the hostel and then go …

City Trip To New York, september 2009

Friday night & I tried to go get some take-out at St. Armand’s Circle to take back to the Gulf Beach Motel to watch the Sunset.  Could not find a parking place as there was a concert in the circle, part of the Friday night jazz series.    Then I remembered the Holiday Inn …

I spend there about 10 months in general, but unfortunately i bought camera only during my last days in USA, that's why i don't have so many pictures as i wish.

no, not another comment about the brutal rents here in new york but the name of the musical i watched today! i'm not really that big a fan of shows, but you can't really leave new york without visiting a broadway show and i picked rent... well, i didnt actually pick it, it was the first thing i'…

Dear friends,   As many of you know, the past couple of years have been a period of change for me.  I ended a long relationship, attended a professional training program at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, sold my apartment, quit my job, traveled and attempted to learn a li…

Upon reaching the Finger Lakes, our first stop was the Lively Run Goat dairy where the tasting was of goat cheese (my favorite) rather than wine.  Since we can get some of their products in a store at home, We ended up buying some blue that is rather like roquefort. After a visit to Lucas Win…

              the family is looking forward to this trip to Puerto Rico come Sept. 2 .. i have read all i could about PR from the TBs living there & from other travel sites like Frommers & i can't wait to see the rainforest &a…

Buffalo is a city in western New York. It is the New York state's second-largest city, after New York City, and is the county seat of Erie County. It is also the economic and cultural center of the Buffalo-Niagara Region, a diverse metropolitan area. The Buffalo area is adjacent to the Golden Horse…

Missing one's flight after a delayed arrival from another is one thing. Missing one's flight after a delayed arrival from the previous flight, and no luggage is something else.  BUT missing one's flight  due to a delayed arrival from a previous destination, lost luggage, nowhere to g…

I remember back in the day when I used to read for fun.  I think it was either doing that or playing video games.  Both equally grew my imagination... one completely relying on words to paint a vivid picture, the other depending on cheap special effects to imagine the life of another …

Had to go to the US for a three day customer workshop. My boss asked me to stay the weekend, because the flight would be cheaper that way. Who am I to refuse?