A 6:45am start today to head to The Salvation Army’s International Social Justice Commission, near the UN HQ. This week, the team has been involved in the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women so it was good to be able to demonstrate to the ISJC team how to upload video clips to their website and train them in the use of The Salvation Army’s Web Manager tool. As well as the formal training, I was able to fix a number of outstanding glitches while I was there.

After a late lunch at another New York favourite, Ess-a-Bagel, I headed for Staten Island via the ferry at South Ferry.

The boat heads very close to the imposing Statue of Liberty, although my photo doesn’t really do it justice. While on Staten Island, it would have been rude not to get in a quick trip along the Staten Island Railway to Tottenville and back. The return ferry crossing was as dusk fell, giving a different perspective of the Statue.

Tonight’s dinner was a traditional American meat loaf, with gravy, sweet potato fries and carrots. Enormous. Delicious. But, tragically, no space for the mouthwatering cherry pie I’d been eyeing up.