40 YEARS AGO ON 17TH MARCH 1975 I flew out of Sydney on a Qantas Boeing 707 V-Jet (without as much as a single tear) to take up a posting in New York City that ended up giving me the opportunities to work in US, Asia and Europe for the following twenty years. How exciting …
ears ago, like so many tourists, I did the Circle Island tour of Manhattan. Today, on a gloriously sunny Spring afternoon, I’m sailing down the Hudson on the Silver Whisper on a 12-day trans-Atlantic voyage (my first), bound for Canada, Ireland and the UK. The engines are purring with a gentle vibration beneath my feet …
t’s a short subway ride from the manicured streets of uptown Manhattan and the tranquility of Central Park down to Union Square for the May Day worker cooperatives event. Demonstrators from Occupy Wall Street, Workers Solidarity, Immigration activists, and Communists gather in increasing numbers in Union Square. They’re waving flags, brandishing banners, punctuating calls for …
ou shoulda been here yesterday”, a knowing Pam greets me with as I welcome Ken and her to New York, preempting what I was determined not to say about yesterday’s blue sky sunny day . So be it! The rain cheats us from enjoying lunch at one of the outside tables at Blue Water Grill …
or whatever reason, I seem to be gravitating to parts of Manhattan around where I had an apartment, more than to other areas. Understandable? But I have another week to change all that; expand my horizons.