Philadelphia
Phil & Delphia Freedom - who can ever forget that famous couple , immortalised in song by Elton John.
Well, we're in Philly now, staying with Nigel & Fiona (and 18mth old Roman). So far they're putting up with us pretty well and even Rita is behaving.
Nigel's not slept for 30 hours (surely he can't have been be that worried about our
imminent arrival?). Truth is, he's been working on a bid for his Company which needed to be in by 3:00 p.m.Friday.
Yesterday was hectic leaving NYC - we needed to catch the 14:40 train out of Penn station to get to Philly (We're allowed to call the place Philly now as we've been here over 12 hours). Owing to a small misunderstanding between the two of us we ended up catching it by the skin of our teeth. Running across NY with a 30lb rucksack on your back and another weighty bag in your hand is not that easy.
The misunderstanding came about like this:
Rita wanted to go for a run in Central Park.
So we left all our bags with the Bellman at the hotel (grown up Bell Boys) and then went to sort out our train tickets. Sorting out the tickets took much longer than anticipated as it was a three action process. 1) you had to make reservation over phone 2) get ticket from automatic machine 3) show passports and check baggage in - that might sound like 4 actions, but anyway, it was not straight forward.
Anyway, after obtaining tickets we walked up Seventh Ave in direction of Central Park. After about half an hour Rita said 'it's taking much longer to get back to the hotel, than it did to get here'. I didn't hear her as the noise volumes around Time Square (people & traffic & sirens) were too high (that's my excuse). So we just carried on walking until about 15 minutes later Rita said ' Oh..we're at Central Park!'. 'Yes', I said 'You wanted to do a run'. 'I thought we were going back to the hotel' she replied.
Rita was timed out for a run due to the legnth of time it took to get the rail tickets.
Suffice to say, we did return to the hotel at this point, picked up our luggage and staggered across NY to the station. Problem with NY is that you cannot maintain a fast walking place as at every grid intersection (seems like every 100 metres), there's a delay before the 'Walk' lights change in your favour.
Well we're off into Philly today to have a look around the city, no doubt we'll have more to report later.....Oh, excuse me, are you still awake?
Well, we're in Philly now, staying with Nigel & Fiona (and 18mth old Roman). So far they're putting up with us pretty well and even Rita is behaving.
Nigel's not slept for 30 hours (surely he can't have been be that worried about our
imminent arrival?). Truth is, he's been working on a bid for his Company which needed to be in by 3:00 p.m.Friday.
Yesterday was hectic leaving NYC - we needed to catch the 14:40 train out of Penn station to get to Philly (We're allowed to call the place Philly now as we've been here over 12 hours). Owing to a small misunderstanding between the two of us we ended up catching it by the skin of our teeth. Running across NY with a 30lb rucksack on your back and another weighty bag in your hand is not that easy.
The misunderstanding came about like this:
Rita wanted to go for a run in Central Park.
So we left all our bags with the Bellman at the hotel (grown up Bell Boys) and then went to sort out our train tickets. Sorting out the tickets took much longer than anticipated as it was a three action process. 1) you had to make reservation over phone 2) get ticket from automatic machine 3) show passports and check baggage in - that might sound like 4 actions, but anyway, it was not straight forward.
Anyway, after obtaining tickets we walked up Seventh Ave in direction of Central Park. After about half an hour Rita said 'it's taking much longer to get back to the hotel, than it did to get here'. I didn't hear her as the noise volumes around Time Square (people & traffic & sirens) were too high (that's my excuse). So we just carried on walking until about 15 minutes later Rita said ' Oh..we're at Central Park!'. 'Yes', I said 'You wanted to do a run'. 'I thought we were going back to the hotel' she replied.
Rita was timed out for a run due to the legnth of time it took to get the rail tickets.
Suffice to say, we did return to the hotel at this point, picked up our luggage and staggered across NY to the station. Problem with NY is that you cannot maintain a fast walking place as at every grid intersection (seems like every 100 metres), there's a delay before the 'Walk' lights change in your favour.
Well we're off into Philly today to have a look around the city, no doubt we'll have more to report later.....Oh, excuse me, are you still awake?
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