Not that you’d know I’d been away.
But I have.
We have just returned from a few days in the Big Apple… and we are knackered!
So much walking.
So much queueing.
So bloody expensive.
The current Mrs Masher and I have been several times before, but it’s been a while since we were there last.
2001, to be precise. The same year the towers came down.
Since then, not only has the pound dropped substantially against the dollar, but prices have risen dramatically.
For instance, for the four of us to have breakfast in the hotel – and trust me, although it was a posh hotel, the breakfast was exactly the same as you’d get here in a Premier Inn – it cost us $235. That’s 186 pounds at today’s exchange rate.
A hundred and eighty-six quid!
For breakfast.
Jeez.
But – money aside – we had a great time and took in as many of the sights as we could, in the time we had available.
And we did some shopping – because it’s New York and you have to.
And we took in a show on Broadway(ish).
And we got lost on the subway.
But, we are back home now.
On the way home from Heathrow last night, Mrs M dropped me off in town and I met up with some of my old BT pals for the regular drink and a curry night. “Just flew in from New York”, I told ’em. “You can’t say I don’t make the effort.”
But it amazed me to think that only 18 hours earlier, I was in the Hard Rock Café in Times Square, and now, here I was in a Weatherspoons in Luton.
Long-haul travel and different time zones can really mess with your head.
I forgot about this trip. Glad you had a good time and very deep pockets.
Hopefully you missed most of the bad weather this end.
The high winds put us into a holding pattern over Heathrow for about twenty minutes and made the landing more… fun, but that was about it.
The last time I was on an aeroplane was coming in to Heathrow in high winds….(.from Dusseldorf Xmas markets), I was sitting by the window, so was rather shocked when we were a few feet off landing, we took off again for a worrying 20 mins until we did actually land at the next attempt!
It’s amazing to watch the skill of some of these pilots when they have to land planes in high winds.
From the outside. A different experience from inside the cabin.
Gosh. I haven’t been to New York for a couple of decades, but that price for a family breakfast is eye-watering! Glad you had a good time tough. Sorry about being in a Spoons
No need to apologise… I love a Weatherspoons.
And at £4.60 a pint, it was literally half the price of the beer in the Hard Rock.
I will remember to skip the breakfast when I get there 😊