We made an early start and stopped for delicious coffees etc at the Hampton Coffee Company. We got to Roosevelt Field just as it opened and spent the next 2½ hours shopping. The girls were much more successful than me! We had a fine last US lunch at Grande Luxe Café before heading to the…
We got started at about 8am and drove up to Montauk to catch the ferry to Block Island. It was a beautiful day but the second half of the ferry trip was shrouded in fog. When we docked at New Harbor, Paul and Kathy were waiting to meet us. They were just the same as…
Georgie and Jinny had a slow start this morning so I headed into the village for breakfast at K Pasa: Scrambled Egg with Bacon, Grilled Tomatoes and Coconut Black Beans. I strolled up to the Dock and back down Main Street before heading back towards the Sag Harbor Inn. I met G and J on…
Before setting off for Long Island we walked up to Rockefeller Centre. We walked through the NBC building – now the Comcast Building – to the Plaza. The building was as beautiful as ever but unfortunately the Plaza was closed off because they were shooting a movie. Not that we saw any action but we…
Georgie walked over to the Marriott Marquis to collect Jinny and they knocked on my door just before 8am. We took an Uber down to Battery Park to catch the Liberty Island boat at 9am. The boat was packed and the weather was very grey with intermittent light rain. We walked round the island and…
We made a lazy start as Georgie wanted to watch the Grand Prix. About 10.30 Georgie called an Uber to take us down to The Edge. We had a great time on open-air deck. An old rocker from Arizona took photos for us and we chatted about the bands we loved back in the seventies….
Georgie went off early to meet her friend Laura in Briarcliff Manor and I had a pretty unsatisfactory quesadilla in the hotel lobby. She returned at 10am and we went off to Hooker Lane to meet Shane and Peter. We were early. Shane had gone out for croissants and Peter was in the shower so…
Georgie and I started our day with breakfast on the sidewalk in Tarrytown. First stop was Crest Drive which was alarmingly neglected and overgrown. Fortunately Birch Close was a lot more as we remembered it and we stopped at a lemonade stand on the corner and chatted to a couple of current residents. Millwood next…
We were up at 5am and immediately off to Heathrow with Keith at the wheel. Everything went very smoothly with the automated bag drop and priority security check. We had a good breakfast and a brief visit to the vast BA lounge. We’d been upgraded to Club so we had a super comfortable flight. US…