While this is a 10-day vacation, days 1 and 10 are essentially write offs, time spent in Departures, cramped airline seats and ‘line limbo’. So today is Day 1 proper and there are few things more exhilarating than waking up in a new city where the only demand on your time is to explore a little.
Our hotel, the hundred-year old Peery (highly recommended) is right in the heart of the city and with the sun warming the sidewalks we make our way
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