Author Archives: Ingrid Harrison

A great recommendation by Anthony Harrison saw us wander up to 29th St to check out this independent coffee roaster – from our apartment in west 14th Street. Stumptown originates from Portland but is obviously making a huge name for … Continue reading →

Big day today –  went out for breakfast and passed yet more piles and piles of trash.  Not sure what the yanks are doing with their garbage, but it seems very little.  We pass these piles of garbage everywhere.  The … Continue reading →

Another great find just down the road from us is Buddakan. Pretty extraordinary actually. The food here is Asian fusion and the restaurant is modern and chic. Quite an experience and still priced reasonably. If you are in NY, this … Continue reading →

Went to the Institute of Culinary  Education today to do our cooking class and while it was a great experience, perhaps a little more order to things was needed. Our head chef went through the recipes we were to cook: … Continue reading →

We have found a great restaurant, virtually across the road, called Crispo serving authentic Italian cuisine and which is in the NY top restaurant guide –  it certainly doesn’t disappoint.  We went on the night it snowed because of convenience … Continue reading →

Our train trip was stress-free.  Who knows, I (Ingrid) may be the new convert to this type of travel?  Union Station in Washington DC is quite beautiful however unfortunately there was some refurbishment being undertaken so we couldn’t really show … Continue reading →

Sadly, we are now on the train after a fantastic but short visit to Washington DC.  This is a truly amazing city and we were fortunate to see as much as we did in such a short period of time. … Continue reading →

Today was museum day.  We checked out The Smithsonian Institute’s National Air and Space Museum which maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. It is also a centre for research into the history, science, and … Continue reading →

Thanks to Joseph our limo driver who took us around all of these fantastic memorials.  We would not have been able to do it without him.  There’s a lot of walking, which we did (our personal trainer would be proud) … Continue reading →

The ‘W’ in Washington DC is for Wow.  This is such a magnificent city and we were so lucky to see the monuments and memorials we set out to see on such a gloriously sunny day. We decided to hire … Continue reading →