Category: Travel
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Tuesday 4 January 2000 Highlights: Cambridge University, Harvard Museum of Natural History. Early in the morning we went up to Harvard and visited the world famous Cambridge University. The University is enormous and the buildings date back into the 1720s. The whole area is alive with young people returning to their studies after the Christmas…
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Monday 3 January 2000 Highlights: Boston Freedom Trail, Boston Common, State House, Granary Burial Ground, USS Constitution, NBA Game (Boston Celtics v Clevelands Cavaliers) I had the best nights sleep in weeks, finally other guests with manners. Apparently Jon, in the mixed room, again struggled to sleep with all the noise, so much for his…
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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…
