I'll take Manhattan

Sadly, the weather hasnt lasted so it was just as well we went to Central Park when we did as it was lovely yesterday.

We walked for what seemed like forever down to the Hudson to see the USS Intrepid which is now a museum. It's quite amazing to think this monstrosity of engineering was launched in 1943 when lets face it aircraft combat was in in infancy. It's also well preserved (unlike most UK memorials) and everything is still in tact right down to the phone's, toilets (sorry heads) and the catpatins cabin furniture and accessories. I believe this ship has seen quite a few wars including WWII and he Korean war - there's even an amazing photo of it being hit by a Kamakaze. If this was British it would have been scrapped for scrap metal years ago such is our disregard for our history and heritage. This is made even clearer with one the Britsh Airways Concorde displayed just next to the Intrepid - a great invention, a great inovation, still the only one of its kind and forgotten about in a instant in the UK - how ironic that we have to go to America (Where at first they wouldnt let the plane fly there such were their sour grapes at not having invented it) to see this wonderful feat of British engineering!