As movie-goers, we had planned our recent trip to the United States thinking about a visit to perhaps the most photogenic city in the world. New York, and especially Manhattan, was the location where many countless movies, bigger or smaller hits, were shot. Probably all of you have seen such films as “Taxi Driver” starring Robert De Niro (an important one for me, because of the date of its release), “The Godfather”, “Home Alone”, “Goodfellas”, “The Interpreter”, the whole series of “The Sopranos”, movies directed by Woody Allen or “Wall Street”. I could go on and on like that, but there are plenty of examples and not enough space in one blog post to mention them all. In New York, we stayed at the Upper West Side, near 81 West Street, close to the Natural History Museum (to pamper Jan, because of the exhibits, but also due to “The Night In The Museum”) and Central Park (this is because our passion for jogging – we couldn’t deny ourselves jogging in such a place, a true icon). The areas around the Central Park, especially on its eastern side, look as if you were in a Woody Allen’s movie – the place […]