It's 11:30 am & we have just checked out of the hotel. Where did the last 8 days go? We headed onto the subway to get the downtown number 1 train to Penn Station. Not too far to walk & once you’re in there it's just a matter of trying to buy the ticket to Newark airport, not the easiest thing to do when you don't know they call it EWR on the self-serve ticket machines & not knowing that only one platform is for one train (unlike the UK) but we got on the right one without any problem. Due to Jane being on sticks the fearsome train guard kicked everyone out of the disabled spots that able body people were all hogging, this is not the female train guard you are going to argue with, move or I throw you off the train sort of thing. One thing we didn't count on
when we got the tickets was that we would be travelling on a double-decker train, never even seen one before apart from on TV, so that was a nice surprise at the end of our holiday.
We arrived at the airport about 50 minutes later & made our way round to the terminal on the Air-train. By now it's around 1:30 pm & the flight was not until 7:25 pm. After hanging around a bit we decided to go airside because there are no shops or anything on this side so checked the bags in & went through. Had a bit of a look round in the shops then the last few days seemed to catch up with me all at once plus I had a banging headache. I took some tablets & even managed to get some sleep for an hour or so. Boarded the plane on time & it left on time, what we gained in the time difference going we would now lose on the way back so even though we left at 7:30 pm we wouldn't land until 7:30 am the following morning but it was only actually a 6 hour flight on the way back as opposed to 8 hours going. We both spent the entire flight watching films that we hadn't seen.
