New York City

Once in a lifetime you should visit New York City. Now it was time for us. The girl managed it to pilot us into Manhattan without paying toll. After returning the rental car we took a taxi to our hotel. We had a room on the 19th floor and the view from our window offered the Empire State Building. Due to the raining weather conditions we spent the half afternoon and the evening at the rooftop bar of the Peninsula Hotel.
Times Square at night is an experience but first we had to do the realy 'important' things. We spent about an hour in the M&M's World. Blue has now a new home! There were lots of seamen in town. Fleet Week! We saw also the starting grid of the Gumball 3000 race across America.
A day for lower Manhattan. We visited the 9/11 memorial, the Wall Street as well as the new One World Trade Center then again the tallest building in New York City. No New York visit without a boat trip. As it was afternoon we decided not to debark at Liberty Island. We've also been scared by the enormous waiting queue. We continued to Ellis Island that was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States. The immigration museum is very interesting and worth a trip. For our last day we decided to visit the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum where we walked through the submarine USS Growler and the World War II aircraft carrier USS Interpid. We didn't do the Concorde airplane for an extra fee (I've been in a Concorde in 1989 in England) and the Space Shuttle Enterprise hasn't jet arrived. In the afternoon we did the Bronx tour with the Hop-on Hop-of bus and our last hot spot was the 'Top of the Rocks' observation deck with great views of the Empire State Building and the Central Park. We enjoyed the sights in Manhattan but decided not wishing to live there because there isn't any silence at all.