From the top: view from the top of the Empire State Building, bacon and eggs and coffee at Greenwich Village, view from coffee shop, Brooklyn Heights, Studio 54 and the play Harvey. If these have inspired you, then do take a look at my latest iVillage post 5 Tips for New York Travellers.
For those of you who have been reading this blog for a long time will know of our struggles with our youngest in regards to his eating. Riley is notorious among our family and friends for his, frankly, infuriating stubbornness when it comes to vegetables and fruit. Yet, he’ll eat tomato paste out of the…
The sixth birthday of this blog was two days ago. In a coincidence I’ll always see as rather fitting, that was also the birthday of my late father. A six-year milestone is a pretty big achievement, one that possibly deserves more of an investigation, or probing, than I’m going to go into today, although there…
The male bathroom had a sign taped over the top of it: the sign read ‘Women’. Even with the number of toilets increased, the line still trailed a long way outside and down the hall. We were between sessions, or at lunch, I can’t remember, and the queue moved swiftly. Once inside, there were the…
Having coffee this morning with a girlfriend, I was describing the meals we ate while away, doing my best to assert and affirm the reality that America can – in fact, does – serve up good food (good goffee – at Stumptown – is also available, you can forget Starbucks crap). The trouble was, it…
Tiffany’s is nestled next to Trump Tower. Why was I surprised at their proximity? I don’t know. For a place so full of sights and spectacles, how could I wonder at the seeming incongruities of locale, of what-is-where-and-why? We pushed our way through the rotating doors (New York is full of them, and I lived…
The small things will stay with me the most. [Although, this said, their longevity in the memory at once makes these events into something more and of deeper significance, compelling me to write about them before any other travel stories.] How I would internally call the crossing light the ‘green man’ as I do in…
And before I know it, the trip is almost over. Will be back next week x There’s the BlogHer Voices of the Year finalist banner with my post. That’s a pretty good Living List tick.
