After my friends visit last week, my wonderful, unique Mum came over too, with a friend who'd never visited NYC before. One of the things she really wanted to do was take the Staten Island ferry so we took advantage of a beautiful sunny day to hop on the free ferry ride across the water.

The ferry gives a decent view of our dear pal, the grumpy old Statue of Liberty.

You also get a nice view of downtown Manhattan as you chug away from it.

Though the ferry is popular with visitors to NYC, Staten Island itself doesn't contain much that interests me. The main attraction is Historic Richmond Town, a 'living history' village and museum, which may well be impressive but I worry could pale in comparison with older, grander European equivalents. Apart from that there is a Tibetan museum and some botanical gardens, which are unlikely to be that impressive in October. We still decided to go for a little stroll along the waterfront and were rewarded with this very squinty picture of me and my Ma staring into the sun with NYC behind us.

And this one of the four of us (Mr was there too) looking into the water.

Then we headed back to Manhattan, I got a bit bored of the return journey and entertained myself taking amazing pictures like this. You're welcome.

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