Mate Szedlak's Travel Journal: Sept 8, 1966

Sept 8
We leaved London at 10.15 with the B.E.Airplain and arrived at 12.30 in Berlin
Hotel Astoria.

Mate Szedlak's Travel Journal: Sept 7th 1966

Sept 7
The House of Parlement, Westminster Abbey The Coronation church for 900 years, with the coronational jewels. Churchil Castel guirns(??) Tower bridge, Buckingham palace Fortress of London, where the King Henry the VIII had headed off his seven wifes heads and We have seen also the guillotine chamber with equipment and alos old armors.
Afternoon we went to the palace Theater and have see the performent of the Sound of Music. It was enjoyable, however; during the performent somebody has stolen my valet with $29.00.

Mate Szedlak's Travel Journal Sept 6, 1966

England
Sept 6 London
Sight seeing of the City. Have seen the old City, St. Paul Cathedral, Statue of Queen Anna. Tower of London, Statue of prince Albert the Councelor.

Mate Szedlak's Travel Journal Sept 5, 1966

Sept. 5
We made some shopping and walked around the stores just for time killing.
We leaved New York from the Kennedy airport to London at 20.15 with PanAm and arrived on the morning at 9.00 London.
The first custom inspection in foreign contry England. This token more than one a half hour the custody inspection
Bernes Hotel London

Mate Szedlak's Travel Journal Sept 4, 1966

Sept. 4.
Sight seeing of the City of New York. Have seen the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The building is Gothic style. The construction had begun on 1820, and will be completed maybe on the year of 2000. It will be the largest and the impressive Cathedral in the U.S.A. St. Patric Cathedral, it look like the famous cathedral of Cologne (Germany) Greenwich Village, The Harlem, The Negro and Porto Rican section and the China Town. Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hal, United Nation Building, Washington bridge, Brooklyn bridge the longest in the U.S.A. wich connect the Manhatten Island. It spans the bay.
Statue of Liberty. We walked up on the top into the statue. Afterward we could hardly stand on our legs.
We also went up with the lift on the Empire State building to the 102 coud floor. It is the tallest building in the World. It rained the whole day, so I couldn’t take pictures of the city.
We came back to our Hotel exhausted and tired.

Mate Szedlak's Travel Journal Sept 3, 1966

New York Sept 3.
Motor Hotel
Two hundred miles long sightseeing in the State of New York, at long the Hudson River. We went through the Washington Hil, the 10m. long Rockefeller estate,
Rockefeller Country Club, where the membership cost for the first year $50.000.00, The state gas chamber and electric chair. The pigeon Mountain with the highest and sloppiest railroad in the world. Bear Pigeon Bridge, Bear Mountain, St. John Seminary, West Point the great military academy and Cadeth Chapel.
Statues of G. Washington and of Colonel Thayer, the father of the military academy and the war heros of the West Point. The 140 acres Hyde Park of the Franklin D. Roosevelt home and birth place. The garden of roses and the groves where president Roosevelt and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt are buried. The whole place is a museum now. We had a good diner at the famous Bear Mountain Restaurant.
On the home way, we went on the other side of the Hudson River.
On the steep ridge of the Anthony’s Nose, a road carved through the rock directly above the Hudson River.
It has a glorious beauty, scenery. The whole ride was 11 hours.

Mate Szedlak's Travel Journal Sept 2, 1966

Sept 2

We leaved Washington D.C. at 11.30 and arrived in New York at 12.35 after noon, we made a walk at long The Broadway.