| Thursday, 13 April, 2017 |
| I’d booked a half days leave and had been working from home for the morning so I was able to set off for the airport as soon as I hit shutdown on my laptop… |
| Friday, 14 April, 2017 |
| Possibly because it had been such a late arrival I got a good night’s sleep and woke at the relatively sensible time of 7am… |
| Saturday, 15 April, 2017 |
| I was up again at 7am so I headed over to the diner to grab breakfast and then headed down to the harbour area to pick up the river cruise that was included in the bus ticket… |
| Sunday, 16 April, 2017 |
| Another early start, breakfast in the diner and then off up to Times Square to pick up the once a day tour of the Bronx… |
| Monday, 17 April, 2017 |
| Before heading out to breakfast I asked reception if it was possible to arrange for a late checkout… |
| Tuesday, 18 April, 2017 |
| I actually managed to get a couple of hours of reasonable sleep on the flight before the pilot woke everyone up somewhere over Liverpool… |
| Thursday, 15 December, 2022 |
| I’d worked out of an airport hotel in the morning, as it would otherwise have been a very tight connection to get over to the airport from home in time… |
| Friday, 16 December, 2022 |
| Inevitably I was awake just after 5am, so I dozed for about an hour before getting up and making use of my time by having a nice long shower and unpacking… |
| Saturday, 17 December, 2022 |
| My body clock was still clearly not adjusting and I woke up again just after 5am… |
| Sunday, 18 December, 2022 |
| Another 6am wake up, so I once again had an early breakfast and then headed out of the hotel back down to the southern tip of Manhattan… |
| Monday, 19 December, 2022 |
| I was once again up at 6am so after a shower and getting dressed I had time to fully pack before it was time to head down for breakfast… |
| Tuesday, 20 December, 2022 |
| Eventually just before midnight there started to be some movement with flights being called for boarding in order at slow intervals… |
| Wednesday, 21 December, 2022 |
| The overnight flight was uneventful, and it looked like we had pulled back a bit of time on the crossing… |