15th November- A pleasant day and taking it easy

Another nice sunrise over the Hudson River greeted us this morning and we took a late breakfast in a little café not far from the Hotel. The buffet breakfast in the Hyatt on a nice day overlooking the river is really great but to do this evry day would impact significantly against our pension plans and so the little café it is.

Noel then went to his ex office in Jersey City and met up with some ex business colleges for about two and a half hours which he enjoyed and then met up with Jen and we had a snack in another local fast food joint.

Jen, Francis and John

Our plans for the remainder of the week are to leave New York on Wednesday morning and then drive along Long Island avoiding freeways and generally visiting some of the nice towns and then up at the far end of Long Island where we can take a ferry across to Connecticut. However we also need to book ferries and Hotels in Connecticut and also Massachusetts and so the afternoon was  spent planning this aspect of the tour. So with Hotels and Ferries arranged we went to the bar of the Hotel to meet up with some old friends/colleagues at around six pm and spent a great couple of hours and having a good laugh. The two friends were Francis Blackmore who worked with Noel in London in the late 1990’s and John O’Sullivan an ex Lufthansa man who joined K+N in London some time ago and was posted to New York for three years. John’s sister is married to Ray Lake another of our good friends. It’s a small world.

Jens cold is not really improving as much as she hoped for but with some extra medication we hope it will improve soon. Tomorrow we are off to up town New York and hope the rain keeps off.