New York, New York!

With New York only a 5 hour bus ride away, we took the opportunity to visit the city that never sleeps, for 2 days.

Staying right in the thick of things in Times Square was quite the experience! There is always something to look at, or something going on. People, people, people…everywhere! It seemed at times that we were traveling at half pace (I think we were).

New York caters to tourists very well, there’s a hop on-hop off tour bus system that we took advantage of. It covers all of the main attractions and features of New York city which can be viewed from the top of a double-decker open-topped bus.

Some of the highlights from our trip to New York are:

• Sunset cruise taking in the Statue of Liberty, Long Island & Ellis Island, and the NYC 'waterfalls'
• Our tour guide giving an excellent rendition of ‘New York, New York’ on the twilight tour of the city, sung like a pro
• The Bodies exhibition – just fascinating
• Pancakes for breakfast at the ‘local’ Mexican-run Italian café
• The bright lights of Times Square (they have to be on 24 hrs/day by law)
• Finally getting home (it took an hour to go the 3km out of NYC on the bus)
  

We both agree that New York city has to be seen once!