USA | Sunday, 2 Jan 2011 | Flickr Photo Gallery
Photos from my visit to New York City on New Year's Eve where I experienced the countdown in Times Square after spending the day in the Statue of Liberty.
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USA | Saturday, 1 Jan 2011 | Views [616]
New Year’s Day in Times Square, the first day of 2011, had
the streets filled with tourists excited about being in Times Square. Some were
reliving the night previous, remembering standing in crowds for hours waiting
for that ultimate ... Read more >
Tags: dinner, greenwich village, il cantinori, italian, mcsorley’s, new years day, nyc, rockefeller, times square
USA | Saturday, 1 Jan 2011 | Views [786]
Things get rolling pretty early in Times Square on New Year’s
Eve. For a moment there, I was worried we were going to miss it: locked out of
the area, forced to celebrate New Year’s Eve somewhere else, possibly somewhere
depressing and ... Read more >
Tags: new york, nyc, nye, times square, waiting
USA | Friday, 31 Dec 2010 | Views [462]
One major agenda item for me on this trip to New York was to
climb up to the crown in the Statue of Liberty. I have been to Liberty Island
before, but haven’t been up in Lady Liberty before, so this was a very exciting
part of my trip ... Read more >
Tags: nyc, nye, statue of liberty
CANADA | Friday, 10 Dec 2010 | Flickr Photo Gallery
Photos from Yellowknife, NWT, in Canada's arctic north
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Tags: yellowknife arctic
CANADA | Friday, 10 Dec 2010 | Views [467]
It had been cloudy for most of my trip; and the worry here was that the clouds would block the Northern Lights, and I would go home without seeing them and without capturing a picture of them.
On my second last night, the clouds ... Read more >
Tags: arctic, northern lights, yellowknife
CANADA | Wednesday, 8 Dec 2010 | Views [456]
For such a bleak place, or so one would expect in an arctic town in winter, it is actually quite visual with vibrant colours and spirit. The houseboats lining the lake offer a rainbow of colour and character on the horizon; the decorations ... Read more >
Tags: arctic, wandering, yellowknife
CANADA | Monday, 6 Dec 2010 | Views [320]
It was an ironic twist: I picked a trip to Yellowknife over relaxing in the sun in Mexico because I felt like a few days to myself rather than amongst a bunch of party-going tourists; yet the two proved to be very welcoming, friendly, ... Read more >
Tags: arctic, exploring, yellowknife