Life's about experiences. These are mine.
As usual with our trips I take many more photos than I can upload while I am away. I have now uploaded the best of the many I have taken to my Flickr account but you can also see them below. Click on the thumbnail to expand. New York Washington
The last day of a holiday is always sad because you’ve got to pack, get a flight home, go back to work etc. but as our flight wasn’t until the evening we had pretty much a full day left. Hurrah! We chose to spend that time close to the hotel exploring Georgetown. If Washington DC …
Continue reading “New York & Washington ‘19 – Day Eight – Georgetown and Goodbye”
Today we hit the other end of the Mall taking the Circulator down to Union station as our start point. The station is a destination in itself irrespective of whether you are taking the train. It has shops, a food hall, a beautiful entrance hall and even some trains. We walked out from the station …
Continue reading “New York & Washington ‘19 – Day Seven – The Other End of the Mall”
Washington came as refreshing change after New York. I really enjoyed the days we spent in NYC but I also found it claustrophobic. Washington on the other hand feels fresh and clean. The roads are wide, there are plenty of green spaces and it seems much less regimented. This, our first day here, was spent …
Continue reading “New York & Washington ‘19 – Day Six – The Mall”
There are plenty of iconic sights in New York that people can recite without thinking but it is always good to find something a little bit unusual to do on a trip and today’s walk along the High Line was certainly that. The High Line is a stretch of disused railway that ran above the …
Continue reading “New York & Washington ‘19 – Day Five – Living the High Line”