In this gallery you will find photos from four vacations in New York 1994 to 2001. With your mousepointer over a thumbnail you will get more information. Please click the thumbnail to open the picture in a new window. All images have a size of 950x650 pixel or 70-150KB. Enjoy your holidays!
Mourning
I really admired President Bush in the days after September 11 for how he handled the situation. (Unfortunately the admiration level is far below that nowadays). And the German chancelor said - after visiting Ground Zero - that it really is different to see the horror in NYC compared to 'just' watch it on television. But it is even harder to have been in the vicinity the day the attacks happened. We left NYC on September, 1st and returned on September 18th.
What's there to say: I didn't believe the attack happened until I saw the hole in the skyline and the cloud of dust where the Twin Towers had been.
What else to say:
That one week after the attack the dustcloud was still several hundred meters high,
that it simply erased that radiating blue sky. That the journey with the Staten Island ferry
showed one of the most gorgeous sunsets I was ever allowed to experience and at the same time
the worst one.
1.-8. No words
9. Memory
An actually terribly bad image from the year 1994. But it catches the mood perfectly