Wardy’s Travel Blog

Cmon summer

The end of the great northern winter is nigh for 2007. Let´s party and celebrate!!!! After a couple of false starts (we regressed to snow a couple times) Spring has sprung. Let’s get really optimistic and put our clocks forward an hour… England and Europe are now officially in Summer time: time wise anyhow.

The most amazing thing about the clocks going forard forward is the smiles that suddenly appear on the faces of the English. And rightfully so… England in summar is lovely. Everything is green (ish) and bright and lush… just like the days growing up when Australia used to get rain. Remember those days???? The daffodils are in bloom. The trees are blossoming and the leaves are shooting back into life…

But the start of summer means more than that… much more!

It means that:
- Rugby league is getting ready for the best exposition on the great game: State Of Origin! C’mon you mighty maroons!!!
- I am gettting closer to anther holiday - Poland next week!
- Le Mans in only 10 weeks away - taking a week off for this one!
- Cricket is coming back this way… OK… after the Aussies and Saffa’s belt each other out of the park in the final of the World Cup.

hmmm…. Summer = Sport

How Aussie is that… no matter where you are in the world… to an Aussie summer always means sport….

Enough ramblings for now… CIAO!!!!

Corfee in New York!

Hi all…

This week I had the pleasure of going to New York with Drew, Liz and Bec for 5 nights and days of sightseeing, shopping, eating expensive steaks and corfee.

NYC is an amazing city! It is stunning actually. Wide city streets, friendly people, nice buildings and last week, some bloody cold weather! Minus 21 at times. Brrrrrr…. Thankfully I had been through similar before (Sweden at xmas) but this was a first for the others and I did feel sorry for them.

The one thing about NYC that amazed me the most was the friendly people. Everyone was willing to help if you looked lost. In London you don’t see that so it was very reassuring to see.

The next highlight was the HUGE T-Bone that I got for dinner one night. Just to put this into perspective… it has been almost 3 years since I have had a decent steak. Anyway… I realised how much the Americans love their food when everywhere we ate there was a guide on the wall on what to do when people were choking. Does this mean that people there love their food so much that they throw it down without chewing????

The rest of the time there was spent:
- Shopping at the world’s largest factory outlets! What a place!!!!
- Seeing Monty Pythons Spamalot on Broadway
- Wandering around Times Square
- Watching the New York Knicks lose by 1 point at an NBA game at Madison Square Garden
- Trying to work out the correct and appropriate tip for everyone for anything
- Gazing over the city from the top of the Empire State Building - chose the coldest and windiest day to do that
- Walked half of Brooklyn Bridge… started heading back when I couldn’t feel my legs anymore
- buying new toys for my camera at the world’s largest camera shop… lurve that place!
- Paying respects at Ground Zero
- Staring at Libby from Battery Park
- Chilling out at Strawberry Fields
- Making sure someone had dollar bills so we could tip someone
- Being sickened (apparently, I was a bit drunk so I was somewhere else) by a stand up comedian (?) at a comedy club - we left during the show and they didn’t get a tip!
- Walked chinatown, Greenwich Village, Wall Street
- Buying stuff so that we got dollars to tip someone

In the end… NYC is a place that I strongly recommend everyone try to get to. I will definitely be going back. but in the meantime check out some of my photos!

Cheers
Ian