I had to put a post in for my first day back. Mum, Dad and Nain were meeting me at the airport. I joked about wanting a sign or banner, saying ‘Welcome Home’. The banner was a huge piece of yellow material with red writing, which Mum had made professionally! […]
Round the World 2007
Breakfast, with the worst coffee I’ve ever had. No joke. It really was mud. I had to ad so much milk to be able to put up with the taste, that it went totally cold. Checked out. Spent some time on the internet. Left. I met the two nicest people […]
The End of RTW 2007
Woke up, straightened my hair, and had breakfast. I packed the last of my stuff, then headed over to the bus stop. I met some interesting characters on the bus, including a guy who thought Welsh people could walk on water, and that I had an elephant in my suitcase. […]
Lost in New York
Had breakfast in the hostel, then moved my stuff down to “The Cave”, aka the cellar. I also packed up a lot of stuff too. I went to the library at 10am and spent an hour on the internet. I then came back to the hostel and borrowed one of […]
Ocean Drive and Cliff Walk
1 OK, so if you don’t know anything about Newport…Firstly, it’s not the one from The OC. It is the home of the America’s Cup when America win and they host it over here. It therefore has a lot of boats. Hundreds of boats. It also has a lot of mansions. […]
Well Do You Have A Flag?
There is a snoring guy in our dorm. I think he managed to wake everyone up. So I got out of bed earlier than planned and straightened my hair. I left the hostel around 7.30am, and caught the bus to Vineyard Haven, in plenty of time to get the 9.30am […]
Martha’s Vineyard to Newport
Lots and lots of rain this morning. There goes my day at the beach. Instead I had breakfast, then somehow ended up on the internet until 2pm, and still in my pyjamas. I had a quick lunch, then cycled over to West Tisbury and caught the bus to Vineyard Haven. […]
Rain
1 The great thing about being here is that there is no rush in the morning. I’m up early and am one of the first for breakfast, but all the food stays out until about 11am, so I’m having two helpings. It was around 11.30am that I set off “Up Island” […]
Up Island
This is another hostel where they provide breakfast but it’s self serve. I managed to burn my pancakes this morning and set off the fire alarm! After eating my burnt pancakes, I spent most of the morning chatting to Ami, a Japanese girl studying cancer research in NYC. I caught […]
MV Towns
I left the Boston hostel around 8am this morning, and managed to get on the 8.45am bus to Woods Hole. Fairly uneventful journey, but you feel like you’re really in New England on the drive: all the houses are just like you see in holiday brochures, and there is lots […]
Boston to Martha’s Vineyard
1 I got the subway over to Government Centre today. I waited until around 10am so things could get started. But it was still quiet when I got over there. I wandered through Faneuil Hall and the market, and found the Cheers Bar (not the original). It was all very old […]
Good Weather for Ducks
I took the subway up to Cambridge today, which is where Harvard University is. Some guy sat a bit too close for comfort on the subway! Luckily he was only going one stop. Aside from Harvard, Cambridge is also known for having a high concentration of bookstores. So I spent […]
Cambridge
This hostel does free breakfasts: bagels and fruit, as well as the free coffee and tea. After that I walked up Boylston Street, which runs parallel to Newbury. It passes by Copley Square, where the Public Library and Trinity Church are. Then it continues on to the Public Garden. It’s […]
Boston
I got the bus to Boston at 10am. I washed and straightened my hair last night, but needn’t have bothered because I was sweaty and a bit frazzled by the time I got to the bus station in NYC. The journey was about 4 1/2 hours, and we had Man […]
Newbury Street
I had breakfast in Picnic, the place up the street, again. Finally got going around 10.30am, and took the subway to South Ferry, where I queued in Castle Clinton for my ticket for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. You have to queue for the ticket, then go through […]