Anita and I have arrived in New York. I find long haul travel tedious, and this journey was no exception. Nothing wrong with it, but long and tedious.
The only bit of excitement was as we approached JFK at about 9pm. Normal slow descent, then when we were about 3 miles from touchdown, and very close to landing, suddenly the engines roared into life and we climbed steeply. This made everyone look around a bit, and the captain came on the tannoy. He announced an Air France plane had taxied onto our runway, and he had had to take avoiding action! We had to fly around in a large circle, and rejoined the queue of planes stacking to land, and landed perfectly 30 minutes later. Anita and I were through customs very quickly and took our transfer to the hotel. This took us all around New York so we had a good overview of the city at night - lots of the buildings were lit up and you could see from the shapes that lots were of art deco heritage. Exhausted, we were tucked up in bed by 11.15pm.
As the UK is 5 hours ahead of New York, I have been awake from 4.30am with jet lag. Oh well, I can always be first for breakfast at 6.30am!
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