I’m writing this at about 7.00pm on Tuesday, and it feels like we’re in the middle of a time warp.
- 24 hours ago we had just finished a great morning at the Met and were having lunch at 314 before heading off to JFK
- 12 hours ago we hadn’t even landed, and it feels like a lifetime ago.
Anyway, an evening flight meant we could have another go at the Met. The “highlights” tours are brilliant. The volunteer guides choose about 5 objects in the museum and for about an hour tell you about them. It means a long walk as apparently the museum is as long as the Empire State is high.
Each guide chooses their own stuff, so each tour is different. And competition to be a volunteer is extraordinarily – one was one of 18 chosen out of 550 applicants, and they also get audited every year.
First piano ever made.
Part of Tiffany’s house rescued when it burned down.
Brilliant trip back – 12 hours door to door. And if I say that the only problem was getting proper confirmation of our upgrade on the way home, that just about sums it up.