New York 14th September

I knew this was going to be a long day when the alarm clock went off at 0600, taxi was coming at 0630 for the trip to Heathrow terminal 4, we arrived safeand checked into our confirmed club world business class seats 14E and 14F, comfortable and even better after take off and we were escorted into First class seats 4E and 4F, we landed with the 5 hour time change at 1145am so we had the entire day to walk about, jet lag permitting. We were staying at the Hilton near central park, we took the underground ( subway) to ground zero and as only 3 days after the 6th anniversary of 09/11 the flowers and tributes were still there. On returning we walked through central park and around some of the local shops as well as Broadway, it was a warm day and a little humid but we enjoyed it before collapsing into bed at about 830pm (0130am uk)and we slept like babies and looking forward to our 7 day cruise the following day.










Leaving New York

Sailing out of New York is quite spectacular. After a bad start in the embarkation process which was total organised chaos and we were standing for almost 2 hours in queues but once we were onboard it was ok.
We sailed at 5pm behind the Norwegian Spirit, sailing past downtown Manhattan and passing ground zero which we had visited the day before and the statue of liberty and going under the verrizaro( forgive my spelling on that one) bridge which we looked like we cleared by a matter of inches,not sure how they judge that with high tides or it could have been our overweight american travellers which were helping to keep the boat deep in the water!
Once again spectacular views and a glorious day.