We had 4 nights in Secaucus, New Jersey which was 5 miles from New York city as to stay in the city itself was too expensive. We caught the bus directly into the city and it only took 2o minutes and as it was across a weekend the kids were free and an adult was $4.60 US return so very good value. We had a lovely view of the city skyline from our hotel room. The weather was sunny and quite warm at around 15 degrees so we were very fortunate. We wore our little feet and not so little feet down to stumps walking the sidewalks and seeing all the sights. Jonty was convinced in his over anxious way that his feet were in fact broken!



We took the free Staten Island ferry to and from Staten Island to get the views of the city and the Statue of Liberty rather than queue for two hours to go on the usual Circle Ferry trip. We saw Ground Zero and then shopped with the masses at Century 21, the huge discount department store where Tim managed to get two suits. After that we walked uptown to Times Square via the fabulous Macy's store Christmas windows. Their Christmas displays are renowned and include sound and large animated figures. Then on to the bright lights of Times Square. The only negative was on our first night at the hotel (which was a 4 star) a vandal took to several cars in the outside carpark including ours and our right rear light was broken. We are still able to drive as it works ok but it doesn't look pretty and is taped up with silver duct tape we borrowed off the hotel.