~/nyc

So the blog is finally (I hope!) in a state that both of us can cope with =) It’s been an interesting weekend, with lots of “but you said you liked it!”, and “I didn’t want it that way, I thought you wanted it that way” - “No, I thought you wanted it that way!”, but I think it’s usable now…

The plan for New York is much less finalised - there’s a rough outline on the day pages, but there’s also a walking tour we want to try for, that will take most of a day, but take in almost five half-day plans! So expect the usual chaos to continue for the foreseeable!

When the United States brought in the requirement for fingerprinting all non-nationals, I thought I’d never go to the US until they’d wised-up. Why be made feel like a criminal? Why have your fingerprints at the mercy of the US government forever?

However, due to New York just generally being a cool place I’ve always wanted to visit, it having a smoking ban (the hotel we’re staying in is also the only hotel in New York with a blanket non-smoking policy) and it being one of the places Noirin and I could agree on wanting to go to, that’s turned me around.

I hope it’s worth it.

Myself and Noirin are off to New York, for a week, and this travel-blog will hopefully record our experiences and opinions of it all. We’re planning a hectic trip, all of the major sites and more. Well actually Noirin is doing all of the planning - but she’s far better at organising things than I am!

We’ll be staying in Midtown, about 5 minutes’ walk from Times Square. On our itinerary we’ve got such things as: Central Park, Liberty/Ellis Islands, HEAnet’s New York PoP, the Empire State Building, Grand Central Station, The SoHo Apple store, Broadway, a night in Carnegie Hall (seeing Bela Fleck!), NYPL, The Rockefeller, shopping and much much more.

Well, here goes with yet another blog… Please excuse the mess while we get things set up and working - there’s plenty of playing around to be done, and who knows when we’ll find a theme we both like! So just sit tight, and take it easy :-)