Paris

February 2014

Delicate, classic, picturesque and passionate. 

I would run away to Paris...

"Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you in to a storyteller." - Ibn Battuta

 

Things we saw and did:

• Arc de Triomphe
• Champs-Élysées
• River Seine
• Bastille
• The Lourve
• Louvre Palace
• Eiffel Tower
• Notre Dame
• Montmarte staircase
• Montmarte graveyard 
• Jardin de Luxembourg
• Le Marais
• Íle Saint-Louis
• Love Lock Bridge
• Moulin Rouge

The Louvre 

Eiffel Tower

Notre Dame

A view of Sacré-Coeur from atop Notre Dame 

Montmarte Staircase 

Chanel No. 5 in Jardin de Luxembourg

Moulin Rouge 

Mine & Aaron's lock on Love Lock Bridge

London

October 2013, May 2014, March 2015, August 2015, January 2016

I have been to London a number of times and it is always busy and inspiring. 

It never disappoints and I'm sure that I will be back and forth many times in this lifetime.

 

"Go where we may, rest where we will,

Eternal London haunts us still." - Thomas Moore

 

Things we saw and did:

• Kings Cross Station
• Platform 9 and 3/4
• Camden Markets
• Arctic Monkeys gig at Earls Court and Finsbury Park
• Oxford Street
• Regent Street
• Trafalgar Square
• Leister Square
• Big Ben
• London Eye
• The Palace of Westminster
• Covent Garden
• Forbidden Planet London
• The West End
• Hyde Park
• Shoreditch
• Tower Bridge
• Tower of London
• London Bridge
• The Gherkin 
• St. Pauls Cathedral
• Buckingham Palace
• The V & A Museum
• The National Portrait Gallery
• The Tate Modern Museum
• Wellington Arch
• Cruise on the River Thames
• The Clink Prison
• Borough Market
• Wharf bar
• The Shard
• 221b Baker Street
• Abbey Road
• Warner Brothers Harry Potter Studios

Platform 9 and 3/4 at Kings Cross Station

Camden Market

Arctic Monkeys AM Tour at Earlscourt

Paddle boating in Hyde Park

Tower Bridge

The Gherkin

St. Pauls Cathedral and Millennium Bridge

Buckingham Palace 

Dancing outside Buckingham Palace gates

Borough Market

Wharf bar

221b Baker Street

Abbey Road

Warner Brothers Harry Potter Studios

New York City

 

 

August 2013

A city I felt like I knew before arriving and it still astonished me every day.
A city that still preoccupies my dreams...

"One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes
 as in five years." - Tom Wolfe

Things we saw and did:

• Freedom Tower
• Wall Street
• The Statue of Liberty
• Rockefeller Centre
• Tiffany & Co.
• 5th Avenue
• Times Square
• The Empire State Building
• Central Park
• Spiderman the Musical on Broadway
• The Jets Vs The Eagles at Metlife Stadium
• Grand Central Terminal
• Woodbury Common
• Madame Tussauds
• Little Italy
• China Town
• Williamsburg Flea Market
• Katz's Deli
• Barcade, Brooklyn
• Toys R' Us
• FAO Schwarz
• Museum of Modern Art
• Washington Square Park
• Soho
• Midtown Comics
• Economy Candy

Rockefeller Centre

Times Square

The view from on top of the Empire State Building at night

Central Park

The Jets Vs The Eagles at Metlife Stadium

Madame Tussauds

Manhattan Skyline from Williamsburg Market

Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans at MoMA

Washington Square Park