The lights of New York.. My visit to the famous big apple, united States

Welcome back friends ...

Even this year 's are here to tell you about our adventures tourism. For the third consecutive year I and my better half Selene, we decide to spend New Year 2008 away from the cold and frost italics.

The journey to truth 'for a first part will be' too cold ... but you want to compare the cold that reigns in Milan with the cold that reigns in ... New York?

 

We start the morning of December 27, 2007 with delta airline flight from Malpensa to JFK in New York where we arrive after about 9 hours of flight.

The first step was to see the program spend the first night at her aunt's house in Bethlehem of Selene small village in Pennsylvania a couple of hours away from New York. A first difficulty 'is encountered in the immensity' of the main airport in New York, just the JFK.

Consider only that has a good 8 terminal! That's right 8 terminal, and we had to go to Terminal 4, because 'only they' would leave the bus to Bethlehem. These, with Swiss precision to 17 hours from the airport. Fatigue and 'so much in us, but the first section we cover the whole inside of the Big Apple, and then' Unable to sleep before the City 'of a thousand lights, the skyscrapers and the immense crowd immense human walking the streets of Manhattan. After leaving New York end the lights and even our "light" goes off, we fall into a deep sleep and we wake up just in time to get to your destination.

We are ready to expect the families of Selene, for the past many years emigrated from Calabria in the States. The evening spent talking, talking, talking about Italy, other family members until the forces we have sustained.

The following morning - December 28, 2007 - after having had a nice reunion for lunch with other relatives in the area we returned to New York with the same coach who had accompanied the first leg.

The only difference is' that of JFK airport, after the race, we had to go to another airport in New York, La Guardia (actually 'there are three' even Newark).

Just a 5 minute bus ride from La Guardia there 'our hotel the "Marriott La Guardia." Luxury no end but then, and 'the only solution possible, given the time and especially as December 30 at 8 o'clock in the morning we had just the flight from La Guardia that would take us to the Bahamas, and better view of the proximity not risk it.

Place your luggage in the room, a refreshed healthy and just outside the hotel. Marriott does a bus designer 24h on 24h shuttle from hotel to airport and vice versa. We had boarded the bus leaving the bus stop. From here there is' a number M60 bus that takes you to the first stop on the subway (in U.S. Subway) New York.

Impressive, with 15 minutes with no sweat at all the hotel we were on the tracks of the subway. Another important factor of the holiday in New York and 'of course the dollar's value dropped, not just compared to our euro ... that's nice when you find yourself shopping, shopping, eating or else ... other than in Italy!

By subway you are traveling with a "Metrocard" a card that can 'get value of a single race, daily, weekly or monthly basis at very favorable prices if one considers that with the same card if ever a valid' you can also travel in all types of buses that circulate in New York.

We decide to purchase the Metrocard daily, cost $ 7 (about 5 € ...) begins our journey to discover New York. Moving with the subway in New York and 'the most' preferred also because 'as well as being convenient and' easy ... I do not remember exactly how many lines are there but I guarantee you that are many, blue, green, yellow, orange, 1 , 2,3,4,5, N, P etc. ... first stage of that obligation could not be Manhattan, the heart of the city '. The 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue are the 2 most streets ' "IN" the city' thanks to the many shops that you can find brand, Times Square seems really a game, stay for more than 10 minutes with his head looking upward 'to see all those mega video, advertising,' electronic billboards that are printed on the buildings that dominate.

You can see the weather forecast or look at the trends of the bag in huge letters. It's around 10 pm but it seems to be in Milan at 9 o'clock in the morning for how many people can 'meet on the street. The temperature and 'cold, raining slightly, but nevertheless not perceive anything, the thousand lights of Manhattan and the immense skyscrapers "hinder" or a cold rain. The shops stay open late while also doing business with tourists (especially Europeans) with the euro really make big bucks, Playstation3, Apple, Ipod, Nike, iPhone ... about everything 'and that' American's an impressive gain, even tourists will find that circulate through the city 'with trolley and bags full of presents. The beauty of New York and 'urbanistically talking about and also that' built like a network, straight roads that intersect with many straight roads, which facilitates' not just tourists.

Not too far from Times Square visit the Rockefeller Center, with two of the many features of the New York Christmas, the big tree in front of the skyscraper and the beautiful ice rink next door, a few feet below the street level, these symbols made famous in years thanks to its numerous films set in New York at Christmas time. On the road we travel to return to the metro we also see the Lincoln Center and the majestic Empire State Building illuminated at night by that 'a real image more' suggestive of his greatness. E 'late at night when we take the road towards hotel, with some dolorino neck ... New York visits, moreover, almost always looking up ... everything is' great and all, and' great

The following morning - December 29, 2007 - we get up early and after a delicious and hearty breakfast good to recharge the batteries, back to the visiting New York. We decide to go down a bit 'more' in giu 'in the part called Down Town. We go down to Ground Zero.

The tears were almost ready to go in feeling like a 'surreal silence, composure and the respect and' still alive in the same tourists and especially Americans. Stars and Stripes flags hung everywhere. The only noise that you can 'feel and' that the work that comes within the "groove" left by the 2 towers at the time of the collapse on that terrible September 11, 2001. Raise your head to the sky and remain puzzled to see a very small space surrounded by skyscrapers and come back with my mind that day and have been successful as 2 planes crash into the towers in such close 'shortlist. Around the perimeter, where the works are underway to build two new towers, there are the tombstones with all the names of dead people, there 'even a store devoted entirely to firefighters unfortunately trapped in the rubble of the collapse.

Again, silence makes you goose bumps. Eat in a small pizzeria in the vicinity where it still houses the picture of the day, the sign of the pizzeria broken, dust everywhere, broken glass, people who sought shelter. Today, this pizzeria and 'been completely restored but no one ever will delete those photos' from the minds of people. Right in front of Ground Zero there is' the Century21, a large clothing store in which it 'can purchase and feel first hand the differences in price clothing, shoes and anything else you can' find. Early in the afternoon returned to Manhattan decide to take the open bus that takes you around the city '. $ 25 per visit Down Town, Up Town, obvious step for Central Park, the Museum of Modern Art, Times Square, Madison Square Garden, Little Italy, Soho, Broadway, etc. ... until you get to the Statue of Liberty '.

The relationship quality 'money and' exception, the only problem 'than in December to stay for more' than 3 hours in the open part of the bus is not 'just the best, after a while,' begins to freeze. The sun and it 'went, they begin to turn on the lights of the city', when there aggorgiamo of a thing. We are told much of the convenience of shopping in New York because of the weak dollar, but we still had not bought anything.

Catapults us into the "Macy's" a "thing" that clothing store and call it 'offensive ... 3000 m² of floor plans for 8 ... well, take your calculator and let 2 accounts. We decided, since even the short time we had at our disposal, to pause to shopping only in the department Ralph Lauren. Many stores even just for tourists presenting a passport, provide a further discount of 11% on the final expenditure. Virtually burglary Ralph Lauren, two Buston full of polo shirts, sweaters, pants, beach, etc. ... what about the 35 € a Polo Ralph? Under almost pitiful we return to the hotel.

Our experience in New York ends so 'tired but happy to have visited one of the cities' most 'beautiful in the world, the most' chaotic beliefs. One thing, 'Yeah, the organization and the sense of patriotism that Americans should serve as an example to many countries - Italy in the first place - not everything is clear and' what gold 'that glitters, but we found ourselves very well in meters at 2 am are circulating quietly without any fear. Obviously there will certainly be dangerous places, you just do not go there, very easy ... one thing and 'of course ... in New York we will be back for sure.