Starbucks breakfast is a good breakfast; sweet and\or savoury alike, you will find something to your liking there. We will be back to normal as of tomorrow. Today is our last day in the Big Apple. We fly back to the Netherlands in the afternoon. There is just one thing that we still want to see; Grand Central Station! The famous icon to all train travelling people. The station that has been a background in so many scenes in so many movies.

We enter the station via the Vanderbilt Avenue and step down the marble stairs into the large central hall with its high ceiling and incredible space. You can hold a football match in this building; and everything you see is white marble. And this is only the top; the sloping ramps will bring you down to another floor deeper into the New York bedrock to where the tracks are. Did I mention that everything here is white marble? Not to mention the fact that it is also a lot cooler here then out on the street. It's a nice place to get away from the pressing humid warmth above.

Having admired the station, we are now heading back to the hotel following Forty Second Street. We pass by the Sixth Avenue aka. Avenue of the Americas and there is no traffic at all today. All the way up to Central Park, on both sides of the road, there stalls where people are selling clothes, accessories, watches, plants, all sorts of food and memorabilia of all kinds. The entire Sixth Avenue is now a pedestrian area where you can safely walk in the middle of the road. On the wide Avenue you can walk from one stall to the other and from one side to the other.

And there are quite a lot people on the move this morning, young and old checking out the foods and goods.

Returning to the hotel we come across Time Square for the last time.Again there are lots of people there. Lots of them have found a place to sit down on the large stairway like ticket office, taking a rest while observing the other people that visit Time Square.

Arrived at our room we pack the remaining few items, check our room for forgotten things, after which we check out and get ourselves a cab. And we are off to JFK again!

When we first arrived we entered Manhattan through the Queens Midtown tunnel. We are leaving Manhattan across the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge with a stunning view across the East River.

We are quite early for our returning flight, and we have something to eat at the airport and browse along the airport shops. It is a relatively small area compared with Schiphol. After a couple of hours or so, we go through customs and board the plain that will bring us back to the Netherlands again.

So much for the American experience. These last couple of days, they went fast. I guess it is a very good reason for returning to the U.S. for another visit!