Graeff´s Blog

hi,

06:30 get up early, prepare packing as I have to leave today for some jogging through central park.

09:30 We meet with Roger Mesznik, my managerial accounting and corporate finance professor @ krems. we visit together the

Metropolitan Museum of Art

after having a great morning together with roger I have to go back to the hotel – vienna is calling already

After having the first time of 8h of full sleep for some days I felt much better this morning. Subway Green Line / 6 transportet me to Brooklyn Bridge.

By Feet over the bridge, taking a nice american unhealthy breakfast and then back to manhattan. By feet through Wall Street, then I went to the piers – but too many people so I just take a picture of Lady of Liberty.

Through Battery Park I come to World Trade Center Memorial, quite impressive… Next stop was Soho / Tribeca – which is as cool as good old Swinging London, lots of fancy butiques…

I was heading through Greenwich Village, then to Gramercy and Flatiron District, where I had to make some fotos for Lisi (Assurance Buildings everywhere in the world ). Next stop Empire State Building, this took me an hour to get on the top but the view over the whole town was realy amazing. In direct context to Shanghai I see now the difference, China is already ahead at least on the Construction Sector.

Next stop is Time Square, then I walked to Central Station, from there for the last 10 Streets I took the subway back to the POD hotel.

After 5h flight I landed @ JFK, New York – and again I changed Time Zone von GMT-7 to GMT-4 What a wonderfull day, full of sun and a temperature of up to 25° C. First I moved my laguage via a Yellow Cab to the POD Hotel and I got a feeling for a traffic jam in New York then I did a nice walk to Rockefeller Center to take a breakfast.

My next Station is Central park, where I took a short break and slept on a park bank. On the afternoon I took Subway 6 / Green Line to 96th street. I targeted upper east side where the Guggenheim Museum is located. Entrance was free today, but the Museum is crowed.

Next stop would have been Neue Galerie, but is unfortunately closed this weekend. Too late for any other museum, so I got back to the hotel and took a dinner at Lever House – very stylish

today I went to land´s end, had a nice breakfast in the Cliff House. In this area San Fransisco looks different, no more starbucks and Wendies.

the wetter was not too good, even around golden gate bridge it was foggy.

Lunch @ Pier 33,5 – got some nice seafood there. Then I drove by Tram Line F to San Franscisco Museum of Modern Art – great stuff…

After having some fun at the airport (3* Change of Gate, 1,5 hour delay) I left San Fransicso finally at 23:35 GMT-7 to New York, where I plan to stay for another three days.

hi,

after taking a fine 60 minutes run gery street down to the piers and back through colombia street and china town to my hotel I´m ready for breakfast.

Today shopping and culture is on the agenda.