Category: New Jersey

Mon 4 Sept – Liberty Park and Island

We didn’t look early enough for booking a trip to the Statue of Liberty from the Manhattan side, so we decided to go via the Liberty State Park in New Jersey as they still had ‘pedestal’ tickets available. As it turned out we are glad that we did. The view across to Manhattan from the…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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