As I keep mentioning this trip to New York was a re-visit holiday rather than a brand new experience. With parents and mini Cagz in tow it was harder for me to actually go back to some of the more ‘off the grid’ places I’d been before like Strand, Greenwich Village and quiet corners of …
Tag: NYC 2016
Postcards From New York | It’s Quiet Uptown
Though this trip was very much a run around old favourite places I did finally get to make my way to Uptown Manhattan on a bus tour on one of the sunnier afternoons in the city. Whist Midtown and Downtown Manhattan are more recognisable to your average tourist, Uptown is considered more like an expansive …
Thoughts On ‘Waitress’ & Women In The Narrative
So just over a week ago, on our last night in New York, my sister and I headed off to the Brooks Atkinson Theater to watch one of the preview performances of the new musical Waitress. The musical is based on the 2006 movie penned by Adrienne Shelly, starring Keri Russell as a down and …
Postcards From New York | Spring In NYC
I spoke last week about Spring in bloom here in the UK, but New York was looking equally as beautiful (despite a pretty drastic temperature drop whilst I was out there). Ironically the header image up there was taken whilst we were wandering around Hell’s Kitchen (much prettier than Jessica Jones and Matt Murdock’s usual …
Postcards From New York | The Re-Runs
“New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.” ― Truman Capote So I’m back! Still a little foggy in the head and my heart still beating in the centre of Manhattan. This trip to New York was definitely more ‘touristy’ than last time I visited. With my family in tow we very much …