So tonight I’m starting my trip to New York – in the evocative surroundings of the Clayton Hotel, Manchester airport. (Regular travellers from there may remember this hotel under its former name, Bewley’s, although I think it’s been enlarged since the Clayton takeover.)
The trip really starts tomorrow. I shall be flying with United to Liberty International airport, Newark, New Jersey, then moving on to a small town just over the New York State border for my first night. Then I’ll have a day or so in the Hudson valley, with a night in Poughkeepsie before three nights in Ithaca, the campus town of Cornell University. Then I’ll have three nights in New York City to finish.
I’ve been to NYC before – Val and I visited about 14 years ago – and I did a lot of the obligatory sights on that visit (Empire State building, Ellis Island, Central Park, etc) and I don’t feel any need to repeat them. I’ll be looking for other things this time – the Highline is one, and a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge will be another. I’ve never been to upstate New York before and I’m looking forward to that as well.
I’ll be blogging, so call back regularly. I’ll be on US time, however, so posts may appear at odd intervals from a UK perspective.
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