Second breakfast at the bicycle cafe. Then a long walk (on the hottest day yet) with our backpacks to the car hire rental place. We were given a chrysler 200 in blue, automatic, nice car, happy. Mike took to American driving like a duck to water. How to do a left turn, do 3 right […]
Author: lyns
Niagara Falls
Beautiful morning, nice cooked breakfast, (bacon is like gammon here though, not crispy). Heather (the lady who owned the b&b) couldn’t have been nicer. Straight to Niagara Falls, they are amazing. On the boat we were given very flattering red poncho’s. I didn’t really think we would be getting that wet… how wrong was I. The […]
Amtrak
We set off from New York on the Amtrak train to Niagara falls at 7am, it was a 9 hour journey. The train was great, quiet and loads of space (except for a snoring man, but he didn’t sleep for long). We got off on the American side of Niagara, took a cab to Rainbow bridge […]
Flight Out
Taxi arrived on time, we got into Leeds early and the conductor let us get on an earlier train, he couldn’t not as the train was empty, we had a carriage to ourselves. I got a tea; Mike didn’t get a coffee, although he wanted one. Airport, bag drop smoothly and priority lane through security […]