Hot on the tourist trail we’re heading towards one of the main visitor hot spots – Times Square. Once a seedy, run down and distinctly dodgy area, Times Square has reinvented itself as a glittering, flashy neon tourist magnet. From the 1960s to the early 1990s, the seediness of the area, especially due to itsContinue reading “Tantalising Times Square”
Monthly Archives: June 2018
Hitting the High Line
First morning in New York, jet lag is well and truly kicking in so wide awake at 6am and we’re off to the High Line. The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long elevated park, and was created on a former New York Central railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan. It runs from Gansevoort Street inContinue reading “Hitting the High Line”
New York New York
So after the wedding of the year, what better than the honeymoon!! Now as we’ve already done a fair bit of travelling, and seen some incredible sights, it was always going to be difficult to decide where to go on this particularly special trip. So we decided to take the plunge and explore uncharted waters,Continue reading “New York New York”
Wedding AKA cheap bride alert
Taking a very very brief respite from the world travels to document something a ‘little’ important to me – our WEDDING! Yeap after 11 and a half years the small furry one decided to make the best / worst decision of his life and ask me to be his wife. The proposal happened on FebContinue reading “Wedding AKA cheap bride alert”
River Spree cruise
Our final full day of Berlin sightseeing has to include a river cruise as we must always sit on a boat where ever we go. Before we head off though we indulge in our favourite German tradition – caffee und kuchen. Then it’s off to board our boat for a float along the River Spree.Continue reading “River Spree cruise”
Fernsehturm Berlin
As we have a obsessive desire to venture up every tall building that we encounter it is a no brainer that we have to head up the Fernsehturm Berlin TV tower. Close to Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte, the imposing tower was constructed between 1965-69 by the government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It was intendedContinue reading “Fernsehturm Berlin”
More murals
A few more shots of the colourful East Side Gallery. Whether its pastel positivity or more serious political messages. In more than a hundred paintings on what was the east side of the Berlin wall, the artists commented on the political changes in 1989/90. To get to the gallery either Warschauer Straße and Ostbahnhof railwayContinue reading “More murals”