Month: August 2017
Tue 15 Aug – Botanical Gardens & Science Museum
We again walked to the station and caught the train into Denver. This is a new station serving an area that is only just being built, the Panasonic building seems to currently be the only thing in Panasonic way. The route from the hotel took us across an area where the infrastructure for a lot…
Mon 14 Aug – Denver
We arrived into Denver in the early hours and we had to wait for a second shuttle bus to come and fetch us, so were exhausted when we arrived at the hotel. Being told breakfast was 7-9am was not good, but we did get up, eat breakfast and decided to go back to bed. Headed…
Sun 13 Aug – MoMA and Central Park
We had a shuttle bus from the hotel across the Queensboro Bridge which has two levels of vehicles going across it, we then walked to short distance to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) which was good, but not sure I would swap it for the Tate, although the exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright drawings…
Sat 12 Aug – Impressive views of New York
We managed to find somewhere to walk for a while at the Wildcat Mountain Wilderness Center. The whole area is really very green and wooded, with lakes and the roads are quite narrow and twisty and up and down. It feels a bit like parts of Wales or Scotland, but a lot warmer. Maybe a…
Fri 11 Aug – Walk and site visit
Since we were due to see our alloy-blending client in the afternoon, we decided to have a quick walk before the meeting. However, we struggled to find somewhere to walk. We are not used to the conventions used on the maps for what is a public footpath, what is private land, and where we can…
Thur 10 Aug – Central Park & off to Dover
Seems that the New Yorker hotel was leading edge. Coincidentally it is also where Nikolai Tesla died. We did a fairly quick walk up to central park before checking out of our Manhattan hotel. This carousel was restored in 1982, it is in a permanent building in Central Park. The ceiling of the building at…
Wed 9 Aug – Long walk around Manhattan
We were staying at the New Yorker hotel which was built in the 1920’s and opened 2nd Jan 1930. Despite being on the 21st floor the view of the Hudson was still quite limited. Being 5 hours behind we were out and walking before 9am. We walked along the edge of the Hudson River right…
Tues 8 Aug – We have arrived
We have made it across the Atlantic. View as we landed was more dazzled than dazzling. Yes, that is Manhattan on the horizon. We arrived into Penn station New York at just after 9pm and walked the couple of block to our hotel. Was it really 2am at home, and 17 hours since…