DAY 69 - live from New York City

what a place!  Time Square, NYC

As the title indicates we are in New York City.  We kinda thought that because we were in the neighbourhood (LON is only 7hrs away) - why not jump over to NYC for a few days (10 to be exact and then doing a QM2 cruise back to LON for 7 nights).  NYC is cool with a capital "C".   We love the big apple!  It’s  like stepping into your TV set.  The people, the places, the streets, the lights....def want to come back.

We've hired bicycles for a few days and been all over Manhattan, Brooklyn & Harlem.   Riding a bike is really the best way to see NYC.  They dedicated have bike lanes all over the city and it's just so easy and safe and we have seen more in 2 days than most people probably see in their whole trip.  If we came back again I'd hire them for a week and if you are considering coming to NYC def get a bike within the first few days.

Yankee Stadium - Yankees V Red Sox

Today we rode from Central Park, all the way down Broadway till we got to Central Hall, then crossed the Brooklyn bridge, all the way through down town Brooklyn, then along the waterway and through Brooklyn Heights (awesome suburb - I'd wanna live there) then back over the bridge, through Lower East village, all along east park waterway and back to our hotel which is near Grand Central.  Did all of that in 7hrs  and could have kept going.

I put our names down to go into a David Letterman show, got the call to say we won seats to a taping and were advised we had to be there by  4pm.  After our big bike ride we arrived a little late around 4.05pm and they gave our tickets away.  I  asked to be put on the list for the next taping, but because we were considered a ‘no show’ as we were 5 mins late we are now banned from joining the audience for 6 months.  Hate David Letterman now!!

I downloaded the Alicia Key’s and Jay-Z song and have been listening to it every day whilst in New York. 

New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Hear it for New York, New York, New York

We leave NYC on Friday on QM2 and will be back in LON on 17JUN.