When we flew out of London, we realised we were leaving one of the world largest cities! But when we got to New York, we were amazed at how BIG the Big Apple really is! So many skyscrapers - half the city seems to live & work in the air! Of course we made the obligatory visit to the 86th floor of the Empire State Building for an amazing look over the city! We paid extra to skip the queue and ride the Skyride (motion simulator) - a tourist trap definitely not worth the extra money!
Our hotel was not far from Time Square - the razzle and dazzle of the town, where we were accosted on our first day asking if we wanted free Broadway Tickets? FREE! Of course we do! In fact, it was an opportunity to be part of the Live audience of The LateShow with David Letterman. In a constant state of American fake laughter, we enjoyed our TV opportunity including watched an interview with Teri Hatcher (Lois Lane & Desperate Housewives)!
On another night we bought last minute tickets (by far the cheapest way) to West Side Story. This try hard Romeo & Juliet wasn't as good as we'd expected, but the performers were still excellent. We took a Free Ferry to Staten Island for good views of the Statue of Liberty and visited the sight where the twin towers collapsed - although it's just a building site with nothing to see! We spent the rest of our time doing more sight seeing - and there's no quicker way than a tourist bus! New York is cold in January - much colder than we'd experienced in England - so it was quite cute to cuddle on an open top bus seeing famous sights such as Central Park, the Rockefeller Centre, Brooklyn Bridge and the UN Headquarters.
