By the sea and Carisbrooke Castle

A very late breakfast by the sea at Ventnor. Not a bad meal at all at Besty and Spinky's. Then on to see the Castle.

Isle of Wight

Small holiday while at Stephen's Birthday. Went to see the steam trains. Other picture shows us waiting for the ferry! (So it was a small cruise!)

Final day

Helen plays the piano in Macy's.

Empire State Building and Grand Central

To the 86th Floor.

View from the Empire State Building

Cafe Grumpy Mugs

Grand Central Station

Picked up Helen's Relatives Camera left at a Marriott!

Central Park and the zoo

Helen at the entrance.

We visited an Apple store on 5th Avenue (no bargains), had a large pizza and saw Paramour at the Lyric theatre.

Lyric Theatre

Times Square

Ground Zero 9/11 Memorial

We took the subway to visit the 9/11 Memorial Museum and North and South pools. Very moving.

Today was slightly less warm and cooler!

Breakfast Westway diner

The North pool of the Memorial

Stacey Kent at Birdland

Enjoying the jazz and food at Birdland ...

Seeing the sights

Empire State Building

Flat Iron Building

After Breakfast in a Diner we took the Big Bus tour, changing to a ferry to see the water side views!

City Hall

Elllis Island

Statue of Liberty

On the New York subway

Took the fast train to Jamaica Station and on to 42nd street for the Intercontineal in Times Square.

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New York from London City airport.

Very small plane on Flight BA1 from London City to New York JFK.

The advantage is that we landed for 45 minutes in Shannon (to refuel) where we cleared USA Customs and Immigration in 45 minutes, arriving as domestic customers in Terminal 7 at JFK. A nice Aerobus 318 with only 38 Business seats - entertainment was an IPad!

Final journey home from Southampton

Bags collected and car rented. Home early afternoon! Dropped of the rental car and now home by 3 PM!

Home at last!!

Just landed! 30 000 miles and 4 months later!

We have just landed at Southampton had a lovely last show on the final night. Lots of Goodbyes.

Helen won the Photographers prize for her photo  and Charles got a mention for his Ukulele sessions.

We now have breakfast, immigration, and the rental car home!

The winning photo!!

Country fair, silly hats and masked ball ......

A few photos ....

• A country fair was organised to raise money for charities, we won a bottle of wine and a keyring, hitting the Officers with a sponge was popular!
• We wore silly hats ...
• Masks for the masked ball
• and finally our fridge magnet collection ..... now finished!

Country Fair

Splat the rat ...

Silly hats

Masked Ball

Throwing sponges at the Officers

A stroll around Gibraltar!

Morrisons in the distance!! Across the harbour.

Cool-ish weather with The Peak obscured. Went to M&S and Next and saw the sights- and got the last fridge magnet for our round the world cruise!

Boats Competition and Gibraltar approach

Gibraltar in the mist ......

Winning crew boat!!

We had a boat competition while approaching Gibraltar (in the rain!).

Thought the Thai Barge looked really good (They all had to carry cans of coke!).