{"id":60,"date":"2006-10-16T22:58:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2006-10-18T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T11:50:37","slug":"im-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/60","title":{"rendered":"I’m Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well it’s been a long time. Maria and John (especially John) have been swanning off all over the place. Sweden, Budapest (several times), India, Ireland and of course New York (lots of times). But have they been taking me? Have they heck as like, always some excuse.<\/p>\n

Mind you when they came back from their last trip to Budapest and boasted about the bear sanctuary they had been to and the real bears they had seen, I had to put my foot down. After all what’s the point of being called Wilbeary if you don’t travel? So here we are back in New York!!!<\/p>\n

I’d forgotten how tedious the flight is (I’m dreading the return trip, we’ll be going back from Denver so that adds an extra 4 hours or so), but at least we’re here now. We’re staying at a hotel right next to Chinatown. Maria keeps whinging about the fact that it’s a Holiday Inn, muttering something about biscuits under beds, lack of lifts and slippery floors. I think she must have had some bad experiences in the past, but as far as I can see, it’s fine, not the best place I’ve stayed at but OK. The big advantage is how close it is to Chinatown and Little Italy.<\/p>\n

We all went for a walk earlier, I’d forgotten how colourfull the place is.<\/p>\n

\"Chinese\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"Chinese<\/p>\n

Of course we’ve already had to buy Maria some shoes (I think she needs some help with this addiction), and we stopped for a few snacks and some green tea for John. John is having some problems with his ankle (apparently he broke it some years ago and has a metal plate in it etc.) so we went back to the hotel and left hime there while we went for a forray into Little Italy. Well… we needed some cakes for later and while we were there we had to try some gelato didn’t we.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to tomorrow, we’re having bialis for breakfast (assuming we can find the bakery that does them.<\/p>\n

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