Wow that was Nice! Got to fly upper class on the way out which was very Nice. On the way back karma struck as we had “that” not very Nice person who puts their seat back the moment they get in it, we had one baby to the right of us, one baby and one child behind us (who was banging in the seats so hard it made the entire row shake), no chance to see a window and we were by the toilets which wasn’t so Nice.
Three days wasn’t enough… First day was the normal sights (Liberty, Ellis, Empire State, Ground Zero) second and third days where much more Nice as we spent our time in Central Park and 5th Av. Some thoughts…
Food - Very Nice (Found the only Italian in Manhatten that doesn’t serve Pizza?)!
Americanism - Not as much as I’d expected.
Cars - I understand why everyone needs an SUV now (the roads aren’t Nice).
Size - Everything is big!
Don’t know what else to say so I’ll let the photos do the talking (781 photos in total… You’ve got the short 34 photo guide) instead of me which is Nice.
Guess where I’m off tomorrow for a week… Nice!
I saw them first on Flickr, and thought your photos were really very ‘Nice’ (yuk) indeed, my Son; you have your grandfather’s eye for creatively framing up a good subject, but with more interesting subject matter and a very modern twist (although, in his defence, cameras were far more basic back then - imagine, no zoom to speak of, or cropping - and he never got to see N.Y. You are also, happily, free of the obligation he felt to shove your Nana bang in the front of every good view, thus ruining it, and in some cases, obscuring it almost entirely.) Looks like you had much better weather than we had here, too. Bright blue and cloudless sky always makes things look more striking, especially when you’ve seen as little of it as I have this summer.
Your photography is getting extremely good, really. I was, and remain, impressed.
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