Bun Bids Farewell to Mt Wellington

Bun, the intrepid traveller, bids farewell to Mt Wellington before setting off on her latest adventure knowing that she may never see this view again as they are building a two storey house opposite us after demolishing the old one.
Nevertheless she is brave and looking forward to seeing old and new places. For the past 25 years Bun has travelled with friends in Europe and Asia but has not visited the Americas before. New York will be quite different from Paris, London, Rome or Moscow but she is excited about seeing all the art galleries and places that she is so familiar with from the movies and such - in fact she has made a special note of Robert De Niro's restaurant in Tribeca where he has hung all his father's artwork (he studied at Black Mountain with all the famous American abstract expressionists).
Staying at the Algonquin Hotel will also be exciting as it was home to the writer and critic Dorothy Parker and her "Round Table" group in the early 1900's. They were the ones who helped to get "The New Yorker" magazine going and now the hotel's walls are papered with specially commissioned wallpaper featuring cartoons from the magazine. Maybe she will even get to see a show on Broadway or the Radio City music hall.
Anyway it's another adventure and Bun will handle it with her usual aplomb.