Day 14: 23 May 2017, Tuesday It was our last full day in NYC, and we were determined to make the most out of our remaining time to catch up on the sights that we had missed so far. Thankfully the weather was kind to us today. It was a pleasant 16 degrees Celsius, cloudy […]
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North American Sojourn Day 13: New York
Day 13: 22 May 2017, Monday Our second last full day in NYC, and it’s a cold and wet one. We woke up to 15 degrees Celsius weather and a drizzle that lasted pretty much the whole day. Our original plan was to go on the Liberty Island cruise today but we postponed it to […]
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North American Sojourn Day 12: New York
Day 12: 21 May 2017, Sunday Day 3 of our stay in NYC, and it’s finally time to shop! We had been saving our shopping mostly for this leg of the trip, because of the wonderful outlet shopping malls here in the United States. Before that, we needed to fuel up, so we went to […]
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North American Sojourn Day 11: New York
Day 11: 20 May 2017, Saturday It’s Day 2 of our stay in the Big Apple and we have two objectives today – to catch a musical on Broadway and to go on an open-top bus sightseeing tour around Manhattan. The musical that I wanted to watch was Sunset Boulevard and I had already done […]
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North American Sojourn Day 10: Montréal / New York
Day 10: 19 May 2017, Friday In the blink of an eye, the Canadian leg of our trip has come to an end. After a final breakfast with KP, we bade him farewell and thanked him for his great hospitality here in Montréal and companionship at Algonquin Provincial Park. See you back in Singapore in […]
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North American Sojourn Day 2: Niagara Falls / Toronto
Day 2: 11 May 2017, Thursday Today, our agenda in the morning was a simple but exciting one – to ride the Hornblower Niagara Cruise to get really up close with the Niagara Falls. For breakfast, we popped by the T.G.I.F. restaurant beside our hotel. It was the typical Western breakfast consisting of eggs, toast, […]
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North American Sojourn Day 1: Singapore / New York / Buffalo / Niagara Falls
NORTH AMERICAN SOJOURN 2017 – THE PLANNING How It All Began In mid 2016, my very good friend, KP, got posted to Montreal, Canada, for work. As he would be there for a year, he asked if I would like to visit him in Montreal sometime in 2017. That was when he would be more […]