Coming up...

I've been wondering why I seem to have no spare time lately (apart from getting ready for Katrina and looking after Lucy) and I suddenly realised why. I've been planning 3 trips! Next week is the first of the three when we head off to New York for 6 days. It's been strange working out an itinerary as the guide books just don't cut it. In 2004 Andrew and I spent a week in NYC during the Republican convention. It was an amazing time with the streets full of protestors and police but surprisingly empty of tourists (a fabulous thing as there were no queues for the Empire State Building!) Thinking that we would probably never get back to this great city again we did all the big attractions as well as some little ones too. The only thing left on my list of must see items was the MoMA which was temporarily closed for renovations. So having visited the places that were top of mind this visit calls for some digging deep esp. to cater for a toddler.


So please send through some ideas about what to do. And yes we will be spending half a day at FAO Schwartz!

FYI these are the NYC icons we visited last time - Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Empire State Building, Brooklyn Bridge & Brooklyn, Jewish food tour, Guggenheim, Met, Evening concert at Lincoln Centre (great Chagall windows!), US open, Grand Central station, Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Centre, Central Park, Broadway musical Hairspray, Times Square, Zabars/Citarella/Fairways, Ground Zero, Century 21, Macys, B&H Photo, and Jacques Torres.