New York to Old York

The good news is that I made it home safe and sound. The bad news is I am no longer on holiday. Pity really, I liked being on holiday. So, we changed the original plans for the last night and moved to a hotel in New York city, just off Times Square. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express - Times Square and though the rooms were small and simple the locations was great and the staff were most attentive I have ever known. Simple things like moving our room to be on the same floor as some friends and having fresh lemonade available in reception after spending far too much time traipsing around the hot city. Wonderful people.



On the final morning we walked the High Line and then booked out of the hotel. A bit of brief mall shopping got us those last few mementos of the trip and then off to JFK for a flight home. Nice airport is JFK, but the food is ridiculously expensive and the gates get far too hot when the sun is on them. Flight home was uneventful and thankfully I managed to sleep about 4 hours meaning I was at least part human by the time we landed at 7am. A four hour drive home was not nice and involved two stops and two changes of driver but we made it home in time for lunch. New York to Old York in about 13 hours, not bad!!