25/12/2008
We, we go. A crazy Christmas awaits us: two months ago, a crazy idea that slowly took shape between phone calls and emails and now the idea is here as a sounding alarm.
is part of the house on Christmas Eve, the first beep-beep comes at three in the morning, coffee, close your home, get in the car and off into the fog toward the plain Varese an airport.
will spend Christmas Day in flight and in a thousand different places, to think it is very strange and funny to think of waking up to Christmas at home and finish the day across the world even though we were warned by our niece who spent Christmas on a journey, not Santa Claus will deliver presents! We hope not to be offended ... Around 5 we
airport, hurry practices (and the tail unexpected since the time) and throw a little 'about the weight of the bags because we accept them as hand baggage, travel light because we are only days away and I do not want risk losing your luggage. 7 am ready, set, go!
is part of the house on Christmas Eve, the first beep-beep comes at three in the morning, coffee, close your home, get in the car and off into the fog toward the plain Varese an airport.
will spend Christmas Day in flight and in a thousand different places, to think it is very strange and funny to think of waking up to Christmas at home and finish the day across the world even though we were warned by our niece who spent Christmas on a journey, not Santa Claus will deliver presents! We hope not to be offended ... Around 5 we
airport, hurry practices (and the tail unexpected since the time) and throw a little 'about the weight of the bags because we accept them as hand baggage, travel light because we are only days away and I do not want risk losing your luggage. 7 am ready, set, go!
Come Fly With Me
Weather-wise, it's Such a lovely day Just say the words and we'll beat the birds Back to Acapulco Bay It is perfect for a flying honeymoon, they're say Come Fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away Once I get you up there Where the Air Is Rarefied We'll just glide Starry-eyed Once I get you up there I'll be holding you so near You May hear Angels cheer, 'cause we're together
The first of two flights is just a short drive to Zurich: Lindtt appreciate the chocolates offered on board and have fun on the train dell'areporto which transmits images of Swiss mountains, with music of cows and nature, lacks only heidi. Weather-wise, it's Such a lovely day Just say the words and we'll beat the birds Back to Acapulco Bay It is perfect for a flying honeymoon, they're say Come Fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away Once I get you up there Where the Air Is Rarefied We'll just glide Starry-eyed Once I get you up there I'll be holding you so near You May hear Angels cheer, 'cause we're together
We leave for the real flight, we expect eight hours of journey in which I intend to study the best things I want to see the surprises that I have to prepare, go over the dialogues from their iPod to refresh my English: forget it, the spend hours eating, napping, playing with the ipod and watching a movie.
landed! How exciting ... is not the first time that we are here but it's always like the first time: a huge carousel waiting for us and I want to do a good lap.
We are here, certainly a different Christmas party and I'm happy to jump around the usual time for a parent (because I'm a bit 'Scroodge especially in the holidays), and especially because I decided to impress my girlfriend with a sortie extravagant, perhaps obvious but really overstated, with some surprises for you all (more or less I have programmed every day, not very hidden, but we hope to take effect), but I can not say it is not a huge pleasure for me as a child I dreamed of landing here, the first time I set foot in this amazing place I've tasted recently is the effect that being in a place described in a thousand movies where you can find anything, the real "Meltin 'pot' of the world, has been the rush of sightseeing or the fact that it was just one of many stages of a trip to the United States that has touched dozens of destinations in a more amazing the other (but that's another story) the fact is that this city, now it is clear which one it is, that the moment I enjoyed in my duty is, however, remained in my heart and I missed once at home, so now we want to return and enjoy it more.
hurry the rigmarole of immigration, exchange with the officer on the fact that we are a fake family why do not you married and then off to find the way to the train on tracks suspended connecting the terminals to the subway lines. I lose a lot of time to realize that you do not get the ticket but you pay at the end of the trip when you go to take the "Subway" and after a while 'time we lose it down the subway because my suffering a bit better' the hour flight, the journey underground at the end of lasts at least an hour, we go out to see the light of the afternoon just a short walk from our hotel and immediately decide how to spend the first few minutes in the Big Apple. Now two hot dogs from a street vendor ... aaahhh, how wonderful! We eat in the huge crowd round Columbus Circle, and I feel at home, millions of souls, too many tourists and some indigenous, the shadows of the trees of Central Park, the statue of Christopher perched on his column, skyscrapers that we embrace ...
Enough with the sentimentality, drag a few blocks and see trolleys of hotel accommodation, which is also not so fast: come to the reception I discover with surprise that we do not accept credit card (transfer), what never happened before in New York and anywhere else in America. Surprised and a little 'inc **** ed I go in search of an ATM, Automatic teller machine - the U.S. version of the ATM, but now the banks are closed and the machines in the shops (there are also ATMs almost anywhere in flower shops) have a limit for us foreigners to 100 dollars per day, so it remains for me to return to the hotel and convince them that my credit card gives me credit: find the right! they trust me just enough to verify that the card is ok and in the meantime, I leave a cash deposit that I will return with the passport when I leave the hotel. To repay the heartache give us an upgrade of room: now that the I wonder how the room was not upgraded! Small note: hotels in new york are all clean but the rooms that are not found in large expensive hotels, usually in miniature. To be clear this is not because there is a cupboard in the bathroom and a shower to make us feel great (too) have put a sink the size of a postage stamp, but it does not matter, what matters is the strategic position with all at hand.
Well here we are, are the four premises, which is done for today? And here I play my first ace and I, "well, let's go to the 'Empire' and see if there is too much tail."
Now for the uninitiated, climb the Empire State Building in one day any hour of any period to any means to get at least 1 hour to queue to get the ticket, get another 2 hours to reach the tail then the security line (search and metal detector as almost everywhere in the U.S.), and then make a ' another if not two hours to arrive at the first queue for the lifts that take you to the 80th floor of the skyscraper, then there is to take a second elevator to reach the first floor terrace sull'86: The first time we've seen here first queue that made the rounds around the block before reaching the first gate, and we gave up.
But this time I did my homework and I read on the internet first and then phoned me to explain that there is a ticket that is purchased at great and costs about twice the normal pass but the priceless right to enter first! Do you understand? You show your pass to each start of a tail and is magically put before them all, is to try, I guarantee.
now on the way to get under the Empire my lady has already understood it all then the cards are dealt face up. We arrive on site and immediately wonder how the game works and ushers told me to come through a side door that leads me in front of the queue where the first ushers me to a second step on the escalator that goes up on the first floor and here I ask the ushers third I see that even takes us by the hand and accompanies us in the crowd up to a corridor bounded by the strings and tells us to "go there": it is embarrassing and exciting at the same time go briskly in a straight line alongside the serpentine queue of people waiting. We arrive before the Omonia security that have already understood everything and we have to pass velcemente under the control and show us the way "to get private from behind" to queue for lifts and showing them our pass we made it back to accommodate the elevator instead of those who have been there for hours and look at us astonished, what a shame ...
same goes higher and now we have come, we go out on the terrace in the middle of the sea of \u200b\u200bpeople who look around and understand that the way of the privileged paying to get in "the hill" comes just as the sunset and the city begins to light at our feet is priceless, as stated in the complaint.
We are on top of the world!
now on the way to get under the Empire my lady has already understood it all then the cards are dealt face up. We arrive on site and immediately wonder how the game works and ushers told me to come through a side door that leads me in front of the queue where the first ushers me to a second step on the escalator that goes up on the first floor and here I ask the ushers third I see that even takes us by the hand and accompanies us in the crowd up to a corridor bounded by the strings and tells us to "go there": it is embarrassing and exciting at the same time go briskly in a straight line alongside the serpentine queue of people waiting. We arrive before the Omonia security that have already understood everything and we have to pass velcemente under the control and show us the way "to get private from behind" to queue for lifts and showing them our pass we made it back to accommodate the elevator instead of those who have been there for hours and look at us astonished, what a shame ...
same goes higher and now we have come, we go out on the terrace in the middle of the sea of \u200b\u200bpeople who look around and understand that the way of the privileged paying to get in "the hill" comes just as the sunset and the city begins to light at our feet is priceless, as stated in the complaint.
We are on top of the world!
Theme From New York, New York
I want to wake up in a City That Does not Sleep And find I'm king of the hill - top of the heap These Little Town Blues , are melting away I'll make a brand new start of it - in old New York If i can make it there, I'll make it anywhere It's up to you - New York, New York
There really are no words, you feel like the king who looks at his kingdom imperceptibly turn millions of lights as dark in here to tell you that will never exist!
Here everything can happen and we are delighted. reluctantly after an infinite time we go down again 90 floors below to end the day with a walk, another hot dog (I) and a hot drink after culinary revelry in air, ready to rest for the next day.
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