Everything & Anything New York City

mariebar1970

Thanks for the kind remarks re the photos everyone. Yes the weather was crazy, I had packed scarf's & gloves LOL. I was actually wearing a sweater the night we arrived at JFK, and the airport was sweltering. By the time I got to the desk to have fingerprints etc taken, my hands were quite sweaty. well it took 5 or 6 attempts to get the machine to read my prints,I was so embarrassed ! I did clean the screen afterwards LOL.

mariebar1970

Good report Northernlass. strange about the subway machine, we we warned it would ask for a postcode & it did!

I am not surprised you spent so much time around CP, it is so lovely. there is so much more to it than I had imagined,I miss it already. Infact I miss the whole place, there are not many places that I say that about either. I just hope I get to go again. looks like it may have had the same effect on you too:D

northernlass_2

Here we go i uploaded my pics to FB, hope the links work

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=218643&id=1534353532

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=218645&id=1534353532

tiff

You just put in 99999 as the zip code. We had to ask, so confusing why doesnt it just say that!

northernlass_2

mariebar1970 wrote: »

Good report Northernlass. strange about the subway machine, we we warned it would ask for a postcode & it did!

I am not surprised you spent so much time around CP, it is so lovely. there is so much more to it than I had imagined,I miss it already. Infact I miss the whole place, there are not many places that I say that about either. I just hope I get to go again. looks like it may have had the same effect on you too:D

Oh it did Marie, ill never forget it, we didnt see half of CP tho we spent loads of time there, we completely missed the Zoo yet it looks great in your pics...still you cant see everything in one visit, so ill just have to go back again

B44

Hi

We are travelling to ny at the end of the month and on the return flight we are going from newark to Toronto and then connect from their to Heathrow. Would we need a visa or anything? We already have our ESTA's.

phatbear

northernlass wrote: »

:mad:...Ok off to the subway now for a trip to Wall St

Never mind we took this time to try and find the ESB haha haha what a joke that was, biggest building in New York yet you cant see it from the ground,

i saw the Flatiron building and we decided to head for i when we left, we saw it straight away and headed for it but got waylaid in Chna Town

Great trip report!!

Couple of things though, our first trip we had the same problem with esb, i finally asked someone and we were on the next block and the guy quizically looked at me like I was taking the p and pointed skywards.

C21 to wallstreet via a subway, its only a few blocks and a nice walk too.

Also if you were standing on/near esb and headed towards flatiron you wouldnt end up in chinatown, unless you had the worlds worst sense of direction I suspect you end up in korea town which is between these two points

You'l see so much more on your next trip and its a city well worth a few visits

curlygirl1971

B44 wrote: »

Hi

We are travelling to ny at the end of the month and on the return flight we are going from newark to Toronto and then connect from their to Heathrow. Would we need a visa or anything? We already have our ESTA's.

Your ESTA is for US border entry. For Canadian border entry you shouldn't need a Visa (unless you have a criminal record) if it's a short stay. We recently entered Canada on a day trip from New York and didn't need anything but our passports.

ess0two

mariebar1970 wrote: »

Here is that link to my Ny facebook pictures, for anyone who is interested. We were there 23rd to 30th Oct 2010.

Here http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=238069&id=620183519

and here http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=620183519&aid=238098

Top pics,really enjoyed USS intrepid and the submarine myself.

northernlass_2

phatbear wrote: »

Great trip report!!

Couple of things though, our first trip we had the same problem with esb, i finally asked someone and we were on the next block and the guy quizically looked at me like I was taking the p and pointed skywards.

C21 to wallstreet via a subway, its only a few blocks and a nice walk too.

Also if you were standing on/near esb and headed towards flatiron you wouldnt end up in chinatown, unless you had the worlds worst sense of direction I suspect you end up in korea town which is between these two points

You'l see so much more on your next trip and its a city well worth a few visits

Well who would have thought it, we thought we had found Chinatown but found Korea town instead but didnt have a clue :rotfl: so theres another reason to go back...:T

We had no sense of direction at all Phatbear but we thoroughly enjoyed blindly finding places of interest :T
Thanks for taking the time to read it too