NEW YORK 2018

March 2018 - April 2024

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- Mar 21, 2018
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Altitude: 121 m
- Australia Victoria Hume Tullamarine Airport -37.668196, 144.84650737°40’6” S 144°50’47” E
Day 1
On our way. Sort of
March 21, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Melbourne airport
Snow is going to keep us in la⛄️❄️🌨
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- Mar 21, 2018, 11:35am
- 🌧 15 °C
- Altitude: 27 m
- United States California Los Angeles County Westchester 33.946314, -118.3887333°56’47” N 118°23’19” W
Day 1
Los Angeles surprise!!
March 21, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
So it’s snowing heavily in New York and flights have been cancelled 🤨. Qantas has put us up at the Crowne Plaza in LA and it’s raining here however we are safe and fine with a view of the LA airport. Booked to go tomorrow morning so fingers crossed.Read more
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- Mar 21, 2018, 3:50pm
- 🌧 16 °C
- Altitude: 31 m
- United States California Los Angeles County Westchester 33.945945, -118.38888733°56’45” N 118°23’20” W
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Junk food jaunt!!
March 21, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
So we are all very jetlagged and tired but after having a nice lunch in at the restaurant of the hotel, we decided we needed a walk. we are located very close to the airport and it’s very much concrete jungle with somePalm trees. but we managed to go up the road and find a Dennys and had some junk food Which will definitely have to be a once only experience 🤨😏🤨..Read more
Traveler Thanks for this Lina. Hope all goes well. This blog looks good. Kathy and John
3/21/18Reply
Traveler So far I am doing it all on my phone and able to dictate my words and it’s pretty good predictive text. I will see how I go when I want to be more detailed😉
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- Mar 23, 2018, 12:32am
- 🌙 2 °C
- Altitude: 40 m
- United States New York Putnam County Cold Spring Cold Spring Historic District 41.417998, -73.95377641°25’5” N 73°57’14” W
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Day 1 in Cold Spring
March 23, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 2 °C
After our first night staying at a lovely AirBNB home, we have walked around lovely Cold Spring. It is cold and there is evidence of snow but clear, sunny and very, very pretty. We are having fun as a family. Done some shopping, had lovely apple pie and coffees. Gradually catching up on sleep.Read more
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- Mar 22, 2018
- 🌧 15 °C
- Altitude: 28 m
- United States California Los Angeles County Westchester Los Angeles International Airport 33.942722, -118.4102133°56’34” N 118°24’37” W
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Cold spring joy
March 22, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Good morning we are finally in cold springs and it is cold this morning -1.. It is very pretty outside but the snow is starting to melt we had a very long day yesterday getting up Ellie flying out of LA and arriving at JFK at 4:30 PM a couple of hassles with picking up the car Which is a giant limousine. Cousin Dominic took Tony Louise and Nick and Josy Craig and I Drove through very crowded street Craig was an excellent driver all the way he is amazing.
The house is very pretty it’s an Airbnb on Marion Avenue.
We drove around to Veras place which is now above the market. We had an excellent fun night all the Rinaldis. Yes my aunt sang😉❤️❤️Read more
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- Mar 24, 2018, 7:53pm
- ⛅ 5 °C
- Altitude: 40 m
- United States New York Putnam County Cold Spring Cold Spring Historic District 41.418101, -73.95386941°25’5” N 73°57’14” W
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Cold Spring
March 24, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C
Good day – we did another walk looking around this lovely village. Eventually we came home again for a rest and getting organized whilst the girls shopped. Next we walked down with Nick to the Willy Whistler bar and had a drink, which was fun altogether. Back home for another rest and tonight we are meeting all the Rinaldis again at the Riverview Restaurant for meal together. What a great night!! Aldo paid for everyone of course but it was delicious, noisy and so wonderful to be altogether with the Italian/Australian/American Rinaldis. We walked down and back home again. Stopped at Romeo & Juliet hairdresser because the three Italian girls were having their hair ‘dos’. Of course getting to sleep was hard afterwards on a full stomach.Read more
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- Mar 24, 2018, 8:08pm
- ⛅ 4 °C
- Altitude: 237 m
- United States New York Town of Carmel Mahopac Mahopac Point 41.372316, -73.73346541°22’20” N 73°44’0” W
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MAHOPAC
March 24, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 4 °C
Big Party Day today!! We slept in a little and eventually set off in the big limousine for the Villa Barone Hilltop Manor in Mahopac. It was a lovely, scenic drive with lots of snow still around. It was a lovely venue and there were lots of people present to celebrate Zia Rosina’s 100th party. Great food – just like an Italian wedding! There was an entertaining band and loads of dancing. We met Patinella’s little brother and Zia Viola’s brother and Zio Ernesto’s sister. They all loved us and we were ‘entertainment’ for the locals. Zia Rosina managed to sing and also do quite a bit of dancing – amazingly!! We sat altogether with Tonino & Antonetta plus Libera & Silvano plus Lina and Tony Barone. They are going back to Italy tomorrow. So it was quite and emotional goodbye. Back home and relaxing, planning, contacting home etc. Unfortunately, Louise slipped down the stairs!! Okay so far.Read more
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- Mar 25, 2018, 4:45pm
- ⛅ 5 °C
- Altitude: 49 m
- United States New York Beacon 41.504816, -73.96958341°30’17” N 73°58’10” W
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Beacon
March 25, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C
OH MY DIA!
This morning Craig and I did an early, little shop at the Food Works and Drug World. We were all pretty excited when it started to snow. Only flurries - but wow.
Then we set out for Beacon. It is another town about 15 minutes north from Cold Spring, which was recommended by one of the shop owners here to Josy & Louise. The town looked pretty on the Internet and it has the Dia Beacon art gallery – recommended by Thelma. Well, Beacon was closed and quite boring looking! We took ages to find a place for coffee and eventually decided on Big Mouth Cafe as recommended by a local. Coffee was best so far – although overall it has been pretty bad in USA. AFTER THIS and a look over the Hudson River, we drove to the Dia gallery. What an interesting and challenging place! It was mainly installations in big rooms – like the Guggenheim in Bilbao but different. It had some similar pieces like the Richard Senna giant steel structures you can walk through. Some new amazing halls of the red and white ‘roadways’ – all mathematically calculated. My favourite I believe was ‘TRIBUTE TO THE SQUARE” where various rooms of white gauze-like walls had lights and openings which made you feel like you were in and out of a mirror – fascinating. Some were strange but overall it was most enjoyable. Nicholas pretended to be bored, Tony was hilarious. We went back to Cold Spring and had an enjoyable lunch of seafood chowder, salad, burgers etc. We really like this village.Read more
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- Mar 26, 2018, 9:35pm
- 🌙 3 °C
- Altitude: 53 m
- United States New York New York County Koreatown Greeley Square 40.746659, -73.99155240°44’48” N 73°59’30” W
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MANHATTAN
March 26, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 3 °C
So this morning we got ourselves organized and the bags fit into the car!! Craig drove brilliantly again and the trip down seemed easier than the arrival drive. Once we got to Manhattan it was very busy but we did manage to get petrol, drop everyone off at the hotel and then drop off the car. The walk back was exciting and our Cambria Suites hotel is very central and all around us are pretty flower shops. It has turned out to be a lovely, sunny day but also very cool in the shade. We met for coffee/lunch and the Market Crate Café and then set off to find the New York pass place. Turns out the VR place is no longer valid so we walked on up to Times Square which was very exciting. We eventually found the spot near to the M&M Centre. Also purchased some caps – I had to get a child size and a cute one for William ☺ Macy’s was gorgeous with the flower display/show on currently.
After a rest at home, which was very much needed, we walked out tonight and once again had a look at the Flat Iron building – very nice! We had a nice meal at the Belgian Beer Bar but my lemon chicken had no lemon in it!! Fun times with the family! We went up to Times square again – very bright to see lights at night time!Read more
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- Mar 29, 2018, 2:47pm
- ☁️ 9 °C
- Altitude: 53 m
- United States New York New York County Koreatown Greeley Square 40.746621, -73.99152940°44’48” N 73°59’30” W
Day 9
9/11 Memorial and Carmine's with Aldo!
March 29, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Craig and I had breakfast in our room and then we all walked up to Madam Tussards to get our New York Pass bus tickets. Had to wait for ages for the bus because of a funeral of a firefighter, which had closed a number of blocks. Eventually, we made it downtown to the Wall Street area. It is very, very cold. We had a look at the Stock Exchange building and the BULL. There are always plenty of people taking photos there!! Next, we walked and found a coffee and muffin. Then we made it to the 9/11 Memorial which was absolutely spectacular. Loved seeing that. Too crowded to line up for the museum but seeing it was most worthwhile.
More walking and eventually had lunch at another food hall type place. Very tasty sandwich!

Getting back home took ages with the bus but we did see all along the east side. By then we were exhausted so Craig, Louise and I went to Macy’s, which was fun. Craig bought some lovely shirts (2) and also some white tee shirts. Macy’s gave us an extra 10% off on sale items. Back home for a needed rest. Tonight we took a limousine all the way out to Broadway and 90th (uptown) and… went to Carmine’s with Aldo and Helene. It was a huge Italian restaurant, with great atmosphere, pasta, salad and veal scallopini and great Cheesecake. The wine was great. It was hilarious because I believe they celebrated over 10 birthdays and every time we heard a very loud singing of Happy Birthday. Late home with taxis but a great finish to the day.Read more
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