Cloud Gate (The Bean)
2024年8月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Before getting the bus back to my accomodation I paid a visit to the Cloud Gate aka the Bean. A huge reflective bean shaped object. No idea of its purpose but it was pretty cool. Strangely the wholeもっと詳しく
Home Alone I House
2024年8月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Today started off with a bus, metro and another bus to the northern suburb of Winnetka. Why? Because much of Home Alone I was filmed here!!! My first stop was to the main house where Kevin is leftもっと詳しく
Home Alone Neighbour Chase
2024年8月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
I know what you're thinking, and yes you're right! That is the shop where Kevin encounters his creepy neighbour, to whom he responds by sprinting out of the door and inadvertently stealing aもっと詳しく
Bahá'í House of Worship
2024年8月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
On the way back from the Home Alone town I stopped off at this temple. I couldn't tell you anything about it, but it's pretty cool!
Lincoln Park & Zoo
2024年8月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Next up as I headed south back towards the city was Lincoln Park (not the band) and zoo. The zoo was alright for a free zoo, but not quite the one in Buenos Aires with the cocaine hippos. After theもっと詳しく
North Avenue Beach
2024年8月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
I continued south towards (and eventually reached) the centre along North Avenue Beach. A lovely beach and great view of the city skyline.
Portillo's
2024年8月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
For an early dinner I headed to the famous Portillo's for one of their famous hot dogs and milkshakes. I ordered a chilli cheese dog and a vanilla milkshake. Both were lovely but the milkshake wasもっと詳しく
Final Morning in Chicago
2024年8月24日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
This morning I was up bright and early for the sunrise over Lake Michigan at 6am and Tranmere v Walsall on Sky Sports+ at 6:30am! After a delightful 1-0 win and some dilly dallying I headed into townもっと詳しく
Chicago > NYC
2024年8月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
Chicago O'Hare International Airport isn't just any airport, as its a key filming spot in both Home Alone 1 and 2!!! In fact they use pretty much the same spots in both films.
In both films theもっと詳しく
Summit ONE Vanderbilt
2024年8月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
My first stop on my first morning back in NYC was to Summit ONE Vanderbilt. Said to be the best viewpoint experience in NYC it certainly lived up to the billing! After taking the lift up to the 91stもっと詳しく
The NYC Skyline
2024年8月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
This building really is perfectly placed between the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Central Park and with Manhattan down the way. The sky was perfectly clear which made for tremendous viewsもっと詳しく
The Rest of Summit ONE
2024年8月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
The 3 floors of the experience including a room full of shiny inflatable balls and more viewing platforms, including an outdoor area on the 93rd floor and a balcony on the 92nd overlooking the 91st.もっと詳しく
New York Yankees
2024年8月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
This afternoon I took a trip up to the Bronx and the Yankee Stadium to see the infamous MLB table topping New York Yankees! As I milled around the stadium I noticed everyone was wearing Judge 99もっと詳しく
Central Park Wandering
2024年8月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
This evening I took a long wander through Central Park. Staring at 86th street and heading to the very bottom by the Grand Plaza before going up the west side of the park towards my hostel on 103rdもっと詳しく
旅行者Central Park N.Y. layout and structure was based on, would you believe it, Birkenhead Park, ha! 👍😀
In and Around the WTC
2024年8月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
This morning I headed back to the World Trade Centre as I would be paying a visit to the museum. Last time I was here only one fountain was flowing so I was able to have a look at the other on thisもっと詳しく
9/11 Memorial & Museum
2024年8月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
The museum below the World Trade Centre was so interesting albeit sad. With many huge artefacts from the original towers still in the condition they were put into on 9/11. Many of the areas youもっと詳しく
Jimmy's Corner
2024年8月26日 ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
As we entered my final evening of the trip I headed to Jimmy's Corner, just off of Times Square as highly recommended by my Uncle Eric. It looks a bit dodgy from the outside but inside it was fine andもっと詳しく
R Lounge & 300 Days
2024年8月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
For my final night I'd booked a window table at R Lounge overlooking Times Square. These tables cost $10,000 on New Years Eve but thankfully are free on a Monday in August! I enjoyed a few drinksもっと詳しく
Final Steps in NYC
2024年8月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
It wouldn't have been right to finish my time in NYC in any other way than with 2 pain au Chocolat and a banana in Central Park from Trader Joe's. After this I threw a few things out and re-packed myもっと詳しく
London > Home
2024年8月28日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
At 6:30am I was back on UK soil in London! After collecting my big rucksack for the final time I took the train and then tube to Euston.
I found a Wetherspoons next door and had to wait outside for 3もっと詳しく
Home!
2024年8月28日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
302 days after setting off on 1st November last year I'd finally completed the longest round trip of my life! I was determined I didn't want any outside help so walked home from Grove Road. Thankfullyもっと詳しく
旅行者Awwh welcome home Greg. Bet your shattered and looking forward to sleeping in your own bed. Thank you so much for sharing your adventures with us, I've enjoyed every minute. Where to next! 🤣🤣🤣
