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inulroWe have plane tickets! I am really going to New York! and Boston! and home!
The good news is, we fly directly from Bristol both ways. The bad news is, it's a little more expensive than we had in mind, and lands in Newark rather than JFK.
If anyone catches me buying Stuff(TM) between now and then, slap me. I am officially broke.
With one exception. I own the Blue Guide to New York. It's comprehensive, and is a valuable reference tool and for general reading, but is a) too heavy for actual travel, and b) so exhaustive that I'm finding it impossible to whittle down the vast number of things to see to fit into the few days we'll have. I think I should invest in a lesser guidebook and admit I'm an amateur. I should possibly stop reading the Forgotten NY site, as it gives me far too many ideas, but if by any chance he's doing a tour while we're there I'd definitely go.
The good news is, we fly directly from Bristol both ways. The bad news is, it's a little more expensive than we had in mind, and lands in Newark rather than JFK.
If anyone catches me buying Stuff(TM) between now and then, slap me. I am officially broke.
With one exception. I own the Blue Guide to New York. It's comprehensive, and is a valuable reference tool and for general reading, but is a) too heavy for actual travel, and b) so exhaustive that I'm finding it impossible to whittle down the vast number of things to see to fit into the few days we'll have. I think I should invest in a lesser guidebook and admit I'm an amateur. I should possibly stop reading the Forgotten NY site, as it gives me far too many ideas, but if by any chance he's doing a tour while we're there I'd definitely go.
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Yay!!
Date: 2005-07-19 07:00 pm (UTC)We have the Lonely Planet to New York but that doesn't help if you are in NYC first...
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Date: 2005-07-19 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-19 07:41 pm (UTC)Flying from London you could do better; we certainly could have got a cheaper flight from Toronto to Gatwick but then have to factor the cost and unpleasantness of getting back to Bristol from there. If we'd bought tickets a month ago it would have been substantially cheaper.
It's a lot more expensive to fly to the US than it used to be - if you buy tickets far enough in advance you can get to Toronto or Montreal out of season for closer to £200 return each, where the best returns to Boston or NY were with Aer Lingus and close to twice that.
Re: Yay!!
Date: 2005-07-19 07:42 pm (UTC)