Tag Archives: Central Park
Happy Independence Day! – New York City
I hope that all my US readers are having a wonderful day. My nephew married a lovely lady from Chicago yesterday, so we got our celebrations in a day early. Here’s a gallery of pictures from perhaps my favourite city in the world – New York.
My Top Ten Big Cities Outside Europe #4 – New York, USA
New York City Rather like Paris, Rome & London, you instantly feel as if you on a film set when you arrive in the Big Apple, such are the number of great films set in the city over the years. The biggest joy for me in being there is just living like a New Yorker […]
Thanksgiving Day – USA
The States is a land not much travelled so far by yours truly. I am very thankful that I have been to New York City, New Orleans, Miami, Los Angeles, Orlando, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, Minneapolis and Cape Canaveral on work related trips, but I yearn to do some Amtrak journeys one day, whilst San Francisco […]
My Top Ten Big Cities Outside Europe #4 – New York, USA
New York City Rather like Paris, Rome & London, you instantly feel as if you on a film set when you arrive in the Big Apple, such are the number of great films set in the city over the years. The biggest joy for me in being there is just living like a New Yorker […]
Sunday Photos – The Black & White Photo Challenge
Fellow train travel author Matthew Woodward set me the Twitter challenge over the past week to post a black and white photo every day. I decided to use photographs from my January visit to New York when the wintry conditions made for the perfect black and white atmospheric conditions. Add that to the iconic, photogenic […]
It’s Up To You, New York – Day Three
After breakfast at 8, I set off for Central Park. I had a loose plan to visit Bloomingdales department store along the way for a present for Mrs Wilbur and to take a look at the Roosevelt Island Tramway. After being delayed by watching the antics of some entertainingly zealous NYPD traffic cops, my first […]
English Icons
In the space of five days I have visited memorials to perhaps two of the finest contemporary musical artists England has ever produced. John Lennon Memorial, Strawberry Fields, Central Park, New York taken 15th January 2018, Martin Luther King Day in the US. David Bowie Memorial, 155 Hauptstraße, Berlin (Bowie’s former residence) taken 10th January […]
