Category: Travel
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Sunday 2 January 2000 Highlights: Leaving the amazing New York City (sob) We were moved into a private room for our last night in New York hoping for some rest from the larger comings and goings of the bunk rooms but unfortunately we were across from the TV room so that didn’t turn out as…
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Saturday 1 January 2000 Highlights: New York Cinema, ‘Stand Up New York’ comedy Despite no drinking the night before I still felt like I had a hangover with very little energy after a very long night and then waking in a new century 🙂 The major pain was having to change hostel rooms once again…
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Friday 31 December 1999 Highlights: New Year’s Eve 1999 in Times Square!! 💥 Finally it’s New Year’s Eve 1999, the most talked about event for the last few years, the hype, the Y2K concerns, the end of world predictions and I’m here in New York City home of many famous celebrations for the new year!!…
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Thursday 30 December 1999 Highlights: New Year’s Eve ‘Late Show with David Letterman, Native American Indian Museum. Started off the day by visiting the Native American Indian Museum. The museum is setup from the perspective of the Indian’s themselves which is very unusual and very cool. Native American’s explained why the various items are important…
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Wednesday 29 December 1999 Highlights: New York Library, winning tickets to the David Letterman New Year’s Eve show We got tickets to the ‘David Letterman‘ show and not any show but the New Year’s Eve special show!!! CBS were running a competition for this show and they asked Jon several trivia questions about the show…
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Tuesday 28 December 1999 Highlights: Greenwich Village I now officially have a cold, how bad? I guess the next few days will tell. I slept in to about 10.15 am and woke with a headache, not a great start to a day. Dragging myself out into the elements we did a walking tour of Greenwich…
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Monday 27 December 1999 Highlights: UN Security Council, ‘Chicago’ (the musical). We got up early to get the ‘rush’ theatre tickets which ended up costing us $20 each offering a partial/limited view of ‘Chicago’. New York City was once again very cold today, I’d be amazed if I don’t get sick. We spent most of…
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Sunday 26 December 1999 Highlights: A night of Improv Comedy Went out to try and find cheap Broadway tickets but prices had actually doubled for the holiday period / millennium. We are going to try and get ‘rush’ tickets tomorrow, basically returned tickets for a same day viewing in the worst seats but hey I’m…
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Saturday 25 December 1999 Highlights: Traditional American Christmas Dinner Christmas Day 1999 and my first ever away from my family, I wonder how many times I’ll be away from family and friends for future Christmas Days (well I had Jon here this Christmas). It felt very un-Christmas like with no presents, no hot sunny day…
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Friday 24 December 1999 Highlights: Rest Day, New York City Library Christmas Eve was a necessary rest and cleaning clothes day hanging out at the YHA New York City Hostel. Watching television it became very clear that people are becoming increasingly worried about terrorist acts in Times Square for New Year’s Eve. Talk that some…
