It’s our first full day in the Big Apple, and we’ve just arrived back at the hotel from a marathon day of streetwalking and museum patronage. Amazingly, we’ve managed to stay out for the full day without completely flaking out after just a few hours and we’re on our way out again in a few moments…

Amazingly, jet-lag doesn’t even seem to be an issue for us this time around - despite feeling a little ropey after 7pm last night, we both got a normal night’s sleep and were up and out of the door by 9:30 this morning. Coupled with the best weather you could possibly have, this put us on a good footing and no sooner had we crammed down a traditional New-Yorkian breakfast of pancakes, bagels and cream cheese we were on our way to our first port of call…

Our first stop was the Rockefeller Centre, home of Radio City Music Hall, NBC Studios and a number of other nearby art-deco style buildings housing shops, offices and restaurants. We visited the GE (RCA) Building, featuring an enormous multi-story chandelier and a multi-level roof terrace (“Top Of The Rock”), which despite the suicide-proof tinted glass screens allowed for a sweeping panoramic view across the city. Despite being slightly less famous, it’s definitely worth visiting over the Empire State Building; impressive though it is, you can’t actually see New York’s most famous landmark if you’re standing right on top of it!

The next stop on our itinerary was the Rose Centre for Earth and Space, which conveniently allowed us the opportunity to traverse Central Park. From high up, it looked bizarre - a long, perfectly oblong strip of trees and grass in the middle of the concrete jungle, it couldn’t look more out of place. Get in the middle of it though and it’s like an oasis of calm, with people walking their dogs, softball teams playing matches and people generally chilling out on the grass. On a day like today, it’s almost a complete antidote to the hustle and bustle.

As the planetarium show at the Rose Centre wasn’t for a couple of hours, we spent a little time perusing the neighbouring National History Museum, which amongst all the old-fashioned taxidermy was contained a fascinating exhibition on human evolution. The planetarium show itself was an all encompassing experience - playing out in a planet-sized (and shaped) IMAX theatre and narrated by Robert Redford, it was stunning yet sublime 3D display of stars, planets and other stellar bodies swooping past in tune to an orchestral soundtrack.

We headed back through Central Park on our way to Fifth Avenue, where after a brief (but expensive) visit to one of Apple’s signature retail stores before ending up in the food court of Trump Towers, eating Ice Cream fit for a billionaire.