I have so many takes to tell of my travels to the US. In my 20’s I was desperate to go there, after visiting the country countless times in the last 20 years I have no desire to return there.
We saw it in a very different way this time. I'd still very much like to visit Canada, but like you, not sure whether we will ever go again, unless it's transit from NYC after arriving by boat.
Canada is a totally different story. I’ve been skiing there in whistler (too touristy but worth the experience) Tremblant ( not challenging enough) and Jasper ( just perfect). We love Canada.
Andrew, we took the QM2 to New York 3 years ago for our silver wedding anniversary. Fabulous! And the beauty of travelling east-west is that you get an extra hour on 5 of the 7 days to enjoy the experience even more!
We love the States, having discovered that Americans in America are so much less loud, brash and opinionated than they are when they're tourists in our country. Instead they're (for the most part) friendly, helpful, deliverers of infinitely better levels of customer service than we experience in this country, and they have an incessant interest in visitors from overseas - my elevator pitch was that I was from 'old' York not New York, and they couldn't get enough of it.
So after half a dozen long road trips over the years, we're up for some more.
Interesting and entertaining read as always. Me and kids were in NYC this summer with a different perspective and perception than you had. Maybe it’s because I am an foreigner in UK (despite lived here 22 years) as well as in America…
I think NYC is still the same. A great tourist destination with iconic landscape. It was one of my favourite places. But it's also a cover-up for the real inequalities which exist there and elsewhere. What you see everywhere is the poor's incredible ability to hustle.
Agree but being from Sweden, a social democratic (read socialist) country, I see a lot of that in UK as well. If one have a good education, good job with good salary, it’s great to live in UK…if opposite, not so much. It’s been a dilemma for me putting my kids through private education so debated a lot whether I should impose my values on my children who is born and brought up in UK….
I agree about the UK. I think I would be happier in France eventually, unless of course the Labour party imposes a radical social agenda for the next 20-30 years, which includes proportional representation.
I have so many takes to tell of my travels to the US. In my 20’s I was desperate to go there, after visiting the country countless times in the last 20 years I have no desire to return there.
Thanks for continuing to read.
We saw it in a very different way this time. I'd still very much like to visit Canada, but like you, not sure whether we will ever go again, unless it's transit from NYC after arriving by boat.
Canada is a totally different story. I’ve been skiing there in whistler (too touristy but worth the experience) Tremblant ( not challenging enough) and Jasper ( just perfect). We love Canada.
Andrew, we took the QM2 to New York 3 years ago for our silver wedding anniversary. Fabulous! And the beauty of travelling east-west is that you get an extra hour on 5 of the 7 days to enjoy the experience even more!
I remember the photo Alan, lots of appeal.
Know what you mean Andrew. My fantasy of touring in an RV has lost its lustre!
We love the States, having discovered that Americans in America are so much less loud, brash and opinionated than they are when they're tourists in our country. Instead they're (for the most part) friendly, helpful, deliverers of infinitely better levels of customer service than we experience in this country, and they have an incessant interest in visitors from overseas - my elevator pitch was that I was from 'old' York not New York, and they couldn't get enough of it.
So after half a dozen long road trips over the years, we're up for some more.
Interesting and entertaining read as always. Me and kids were in NYC this summer with a different perspective and perception than you had. Maybe it’s because I am an foreigner in UK (despite lived here 22 years) as well as in America…
I think NYC is still the same. A great tourist destination with iconic landscape. It was one of my favourite places. But it's also a cover-up for the real inequalities which exist there and elsewhere. What you see everywhere is the poor's incredible ability to hustle.
Agree but being from Sweden, a social democratic (read socialist) country, I see a lot of that in UK as well. If one have a good education, good job with good salary, it’s great to live in UK…if opposite, not so much. It’s been a dilemma for me putting my kids through private education so debated a lot whether I should impose my values on my children who is born and brought up in UK….
I agree about the UK. I think I would be happier in France eventually, unless of course the Labour party imposes a radical social agenda for the next 20-30 years, which includes proportional representation.