New York – 12th June
Today we had an early arrival in New York. We were up at 4.30am in readiness to sail past the Statue of Liberty at 5.00am. As we sailed in through the early morning mist was saw the Statue of Liberty, Downtown New York and finally berthed near Uptown New York.
After a quick breakfast we joined our tour which was New York by Land and Sea. After a short drive downtown we boarded a catamaran for a trip under Brooklyn, Madison and Williamsburg Bridges, before sailing down the Hudson River past Ellis Island (where 12 million immigrants past through in the early 1900s) and the Statue of Liberty. When we returned ashore we had a further coach trip seeing the sights of New York, before returning to the ship.
After a quick lunch we decided to venture in to town on our own and after grabbing a yellow cab we went to hunt down Andrew’s favourite shops.
After a successful shopping expedition we ended up near the Lincoln Centre, where we asked the security guards at the New York National Ballet of somewhere good to eat. Don’t laugh but, next thing we knew they gave us two free tickets to Ballet and we were sitting inside watching the first act of Apollo, which although very enjoyable, we needed some food, so we sneaked out .
We found a nice Irish pub/restaurant for a steak, and afterwards hailed a cab to return us to the ship via Times Square, where we admired the view of New York at night.
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