Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Need A Job...
But hey, I haven’t written about my trip yet so I may do this in stages…I travelled down to Heathrow with mum, step dad Bob and little sis Katie, and we stayed in a Holiday Inn overnight. After breakfast the next morning, we met Tony Blackburn and the radio crew, I must say he is a great bloke, very down to earth. Our flight was fairly uneventful, but it was quite nerve wracking asking Tony to move so that I could visit the loo!
One of the guys was really fit and a keen marathon runner so I was kind of angling for tips. He told us about running the London Marathon, then mentioned he’d also ran the New York Marathon. “Oh”, said mum, “How far’s that one?” Bless…
We stayed in a family room in the Grand Hyatt, New York, just next door to the Grand Central Station which is lovely- really ornate. A special light show is put on every half hour this time of year. The first day, Sunday, mum and Bob joined the radio crew for breakfast in the Waldorf Astoria hotel whilst me and Katie found McDonalds!
Our hotel and the Chrysler BuildingWhen they rejoined us we spent the rest of the day exploring. New York is maaad! It’s like walking inside a washing machine on full spin! And the buildings… I got a crick in the neck from staring upwards at the skyscrapers. The streets of Manhattan are all in shade as the sun can’t penetrate past them. We found the solace of Bryant Park with it’s ice rink (no I didn’t have a go? Have you seen me skate? Let’s just say- Bambi!) then immersed ourselves in the frantic, people rushing, yellow cab tooting, billboard flashing mayhem that it Times Square. We had lunch in Planet Hollywood, an amazing place filled with film artefacts.
After that we had a walk up 5th Avenue to Macey’s, the largest department store in the world! That was pretty manic, but Katie bought some stuff (mind you she did everywhere we went!)
Katz Deli
Macys!
Times Square
Monday it was me and Katie’s turn to do the radio show, which was pretty nerve wracking but kind of fun, as we got to talk about what we had done Sunday. We had breakfast in Katz Deli- where the famous ‘fake orgasm’ scene was filmed in ‘When Harry Met Sally’- in fact we sat at THE table, marked by a swinging plaque! I have to admit, I did do a sort of impression, quietly, when me and Katie were on our own, until she threatened to disown me!
In the afternoon we went for a carriage ride in Central Park but it was bloody freezing!! We walked up 5th Avenue and I bought a long coat (“This? Oh, just a little something I picked up in New York…”).
Right…that’s it for now! More tomorrow… I’m off for a soothing glass of red…
