Across the great divide

WELL, that’s easy for Tom Waits or Bruce Springsteen to say.

But for the visitor to these parts, getting from A in Manhattan to B in New Jersey can be a little more complicated.

We’ve criss-crossed the Hudson a few times this week and all has gone smoothly but I can never make the journey from the Empire State to the Garden State without suffering a traumatic flashback to our maiden voyage during the 1994 World Cup.