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SHARING WITH FRIENDS IN NEW YORK

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This was to be a new experience ! Travelling with my two closest friends to a city which they had never visited. New York. It all started sometime ago when Helena from Finland,  ( see GLORIOUS COLOURS AND NEW DISCOVERIES )   said she would like to see New York. When I suggested that we go together,  dates were set up at once and I asked Pierrette to join us. I wonder how many times I have visited New York in the last 40 years? The count doesn’t matter but as with so many cities, there is a purpose to my visit and it is rarely if ever as a tourist. This made me a little nervous as just how much could I show them?  All the major museums of course - and yet as we will see, there was one I didn’t know at all. As my plane was four hours late, I was the last to arrive instead of the first but they were both settled into their hotel room. Dinner and bed were next on the menu. So the first day it was going to be the Whitney but when we walked there - it was closed! I had not done my ho