Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com writer on her plans to spend Easter in New York

Travel expert Megan Singleton's set to spend Easter in New York, and she's revealed her itinerary for making the most of the holiday.

She's set to head to a gospel church in Harlem on Easter Sunday - the Abyssinian Baptist Church founded in 1808 where Martin Luther King and Malcom X attended.

She plans to catch an afternoon game at Yankee Stadium, and then head to the Plaza hotel for an afternoon high tea. 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News TALKSB Travel with Wendy wo Tours Where the
World Is Yours.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Book now Joining me now to travel. Megan Singleton, blogger
at large dot com. Good morning, Good morning, right, you
are getting all ready to fly out to New York.
Not a bad way to spend your Easter, I know.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Except Economy class sitting upright, going all the way to
New York. And I'll tell you why, because the plane
is full. I think everyone's avoiding the Middle East and
they're having to go to Europe through whichever which way
they can. And yeah, that plane's pretty full. Can't even
get an upgrade.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well that makes sense. And I'm sure that you've got
an amazing itinery in New York to completely erase the
journey from your mind. Anyway, I have.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
So we're there for the whole of Easter weekend, just
my husband and I before I pick up the tour
on Tuesday in Washington. So you know how I'm trying
to do less foamo, more slow mo. Yes, so I
haven't packed our itinerary too full. I mean, as you know,
I've been to New York. I think it's been my
sixth visit in three years, so I'm kind of just
doing it piece by piece. So my first plan, and

(01:17):
I just cannot wait for this, is I really wanted
to go to a gospel church in Harlem, and I've
found the Abyssinian Baptist Church, which was actually founded in
eighteen o eight and it's where Martin Luther King attended.
Malcolm X made big statements from there, and I expect
full goosebumps on Easter Sunday morning, and then that afternoon

(01:41):
we're going off to the Yankees baseball game, which is
up north of Harlem. So we've got at times perfectly.
It's an afternoon game, We'll get some lunch in the
stadium and then that's it. How it's just dinner.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
How expensive were the tickets? When did you sort of
book the tickets for that?

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I book Yeah, I bought the tickets about a month
ago and they I think they paid one hundred years
dollars each. And we're on the like second tier looking
over first base. First base is the premium. Where's where
you kind of want to be because that's where most
people get struck out right, all the action kind of
occurs either at the home plate or first base, so
that's where we're going to be. And the weather is

(02:19):
looking a little in clement, so I'm kind of hoping
that it will be. I had to google whether they
pencil baseball games like they do with cricket in the rain,
and yeah, it depends how heavy it is. So there
we go. That's that and we'll see. We'll see if
that's going to work out for tomorrow. And then the
next day, Monday, we're off to the Plaza for afternoon tea.

(02:41):
So that is famous for the Home Alone movie and
also if you've followed or read any of the Alloy's
at the Plaza books that you might have read your
daughter when she was very little. So I'm excited about that.
It's a super posh afternoon tea that we're going to
do there. That'll probably be dinner because knowing what prices
are in New York, that'll be we eat once a day.
That's it.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
What else is the what else is there is the
plaza where they have the Christmas display.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yes, so their Christmas display is so famous that people
try and get in just to look at it, and
they won't let you through all of December. No, unless
you're a guest at the hotel, you can't even poke
your head in the door. So a little tap though
I have read is there's a gift store in Eloise
gift store and you can slip your little head in

(03:30):
there and maybe even set foot in there. If you
get there, like it's seven in the morning, you can
get it.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Christs display, still not up, still not up now though
you won't be doing that.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
No, no, no, that comes down like yeah by New Year.
No that that's well gone. But it is a famous
hotel for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
And where do you go because you've been so many times? Now,
where's the best view of New York? Where do you
go to get the best view?

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, charl I'm going to say we went up the
Empire State Building last year. We were there in November,
a little bit underwhelmed. So the Rockefeller Center gives you
the view all the way down the top the rock,
all the way down Central Park and looking back at
the Empire State Building. So you could take your photos
with that beautiful, iconic Empire State Building, but from the

(04:15):
top of the rock. So I totally recommend that. And
I'm also going to go up to so much. One
which is down the bottom of the island and that's
like one hundred and something floors. I'll be up and
that's all glass and mirrors and crazy crazy, but I
want to be up there for sunset, so again, hopefully
there'll be nice sky and we'll get some sunset twinkly
lights of the city. So that's my plan as well

(04:38):
me in the train down to DC.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Brilliant, travel safe, look forward to hearing all about it.
We'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Thanks Francesca.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
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