There are tourists left, right and centre waiting to pose in the butt crack of a big bronze bull....

If you're planning a trip to New York I really recommend you catch a Broadway musical. I also recommend you avoid the ones featuring people made famous by American Idol....

Americans must be pretty sick of the saying 'only in America' but while in New York I saw some sights which made me think 'only in New York'. Like the campest softball team in the world playing in Central Park....

Most of New York's tourist attractions will cost you an arm, a leg and a couple of kidneys so I weighed up the pros and cons before buying a ticket to the 'Top of the Rock' at the Rockefeller Center. Fortunately the activity was well worth both limbs and both organs. Here are the 10 reasons why 'The Rock' rocks....

I had imagined my own arrival in New York City as a cheesy movie montage. I would be fabulous and glamorous with 'salon shiny' hair and I'd be hanging out of the window of a yellow cab like a loony Labrador....

Going to a Holocaust museum brings a mix of emotions. I sort of felt excited because I knew Washington DC's Holocaust Memorial Museum would be an amazing experience. But then I also knew it was weird to be excited about going to such a morbid place....

My mind's gone blank and I know the lady at the 'Monuments by Moonlight' is thinking she's dealing with a wasted stoner....

I was in a hotel room in Washington DC when I saw a story on CNN about the city's newest museum which was hilariously named the 'Newseum'. It was a shrine to the media and it was opening that very day which was a very happy coincidence for me, a 'sort-of' journalist....

We were standing high on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial. The big man was inside in all his stony-faced glory and the breath-taking Reflecting Pool was twinkling below us....

The entrance price was so high we could barely believe it. The museum was so full we could barely move. But the whole experience was so cool, you'd barely believe there's a museum in Washington DC which is so groovy, baby....

Throughout my travels I have been plagued by the same old problem. Everywhere I've gone, there's been a time limit and I've had to leave feeling sad about the list of exciting things I could have done with more time....

You can't get a better setting for a jolly good ghost story than Savannah at night....

Toilets might seem unexciting in the grand scheme of travelling but when you are blessed with a bladder the size of a hazelnut, they become a very big deal indeed....

We arrived in Savannah, Georgia to live out one of my dreams: to see the home of eccentric art dealer Jim Williams, who was the main character in the 'nonfiction novel' 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'....

Looking at the space shuttle's toilet I could barely believe I'd reached full-blown adulthood without wondering how astronauts go to the loo in space....