Finally I’m sharing my travel tips and pics for America, from New York, Boston, Philly and Chicago to, finally, Miami. One of my favourite Miami activities was a day trip to the Florida Keys 🏝️🗾. This is my last America-related travel post (until the next trip!) with what to see, do and eat in Key West. About Florida Keys is an archipelago off the south … Continue reading Miami [part 2]: Florida Keys
Finally I’m posting some travel tips and pics from my trip to America. Miami was my final destination, after New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. Downtown If you start at Bayfront Park you can take a walk northwards up Biscayne Boulevard, along the seafront, past the Freedom Tower to Pérez Art Museum. The skyscrapers here aren’t quite as impressive as in New York or Chicago, … Continue reading Miami [part 1]: downtown & Miami Beach
I’ve already written about my time in Sri Lanka and Thailand and am finally getting round to posting my tips and pics for Singapore, which was the second stop on that trip. There is one more stop to come: 8 hours in Dubai! Singapore is one of my favourite cities in the world. Every time I think about it I get a warm fuzzy feeling. I … Continue reading Singapore
Finally I’m posting some travel tips and pics for America. Read about New York, Boston and Philadelphia first! I had a great couple of days in the Windy City. I found it prettier, more characterful, less blocky and less claustrophobic than New York. My top 5 must-sees are marked with a ⭐ Millennium Park & the ‘Bean’ ⭐ Millennium Park is in the centre of Chicago and … Continue reading Chicago
Finally I’m posting some travel tips and pics from my trip to America. Read about New York here, Boston here, and stay tuned for Chicago and Miami! Why visit Philly? Like Boston, Philly has played an important role in American political history. The Dutch and the Swedish had been skirmishing around the area for a […]
Finally I’m posting my favourite travel tips and pics from my trip to America. Read about New York here and stay tuned for more! Why visit Boston? Founded in 1630 by Puritan colonists, Boston later played an important role in the American Revolution. Tensions with the English started mounting in the late 1700’s: the English Parliament insisted on taxing the Bostonians, which the Bostonians disliked, … Continue reading Boston & Harvard
Finally I’m getting round to posting my pics and travel tips for New York. Read part one here and part two here. Stay tuned for more of America! High Line The High Line is a disused industrial railway line, now a public park/walkway, running a few storeys above ground. The line went out of use in 1980 with a final dispatch of frozen turkeys, and … Continue reading New York [part 3]: Chelsea + where to eat
Finally I’m posting some travel tips and pics from my trip to New York. Read part 1 here and look out for part 3! Lower Manhattan, also known as the Financial District, is at the bottom tip of Manhattan Island (the part of the island once called New Amsterdam). The grid disintegrates into narrower windy streets (some are even unnumbered!) and a little quirk and … Continue reading New York [part 2]: Lower Manhattan
