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Arriving in North America

Posted 18th May 2009

We left Australia late on the Wednesday evening after performing on Australia’s Got Talent, and made the next trip on our mammoth journey around the world. For me, this was my fifth time around the world.

We connected at San Fransisco on our way to New York where we would finish the journey to Philadelphia by road. We had a short layover in San Fransisco which reminded me of the trip I made there last September. It is definitely a place I would like Julz to see, so we’ll have to return to see it!

We eventually arrived in New York pretty late and we had a three hour drive ahead of us. We arrived in the early hours, and went straight to bed after a full day travelling.

We had the next day off to recover from the journey’ so we took the opportunity after a long lie-in to have a wander around Philadelphia. It was a fine day, and we walked down to the town hall, passing the liberty bell on the way.

Paul outside Independence Hall, Philadelphia

Philadelphia is of course a very important part of US history, and has a link to my former home town of Bristol. The Penn family originated in Bristol and in the Church where I sang with my church choir there is a plaque to William Penn and his father.

Julz spent some time trying to find other books in the Twilight series. She has read two of them already since we left London, and so we popped into a bookstore to find them. Excitedly, Julz bought the remaining titles and we made our way back to the hotel. That evening we went with Jake for dinner and grabbed a ‘Philly’ cheese steak. We then headed back to the hotel.

We were in Philly for a short session on QVC to perform a few tracks. We headed out to the centre in Westchester and after a briefing a rehearsal, it was time to perform.
To my amazement, QVC’s stock sold out within 7 minutes! I enjoyed my time performing, and it was then time to head to New York in readiness for my performance on CBS’ Early Show. This time we went by train. It was a ninety minute journey on the train, my first ever train ride in America.

When we arrived, we headed straight to aol where I recorded three songs, La Prima Volta, Memory and Mamma, plus an interview. After that it was an early night as we would be up at five the next morning.

Five AM came very soon, and it was time to head to the studios very close to Central Park and I performed La Prima Volta and Memory, before heading to Montreal. We left for the airport on a day with record temperatures. So back to Canada we go!

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