After a brief interlude in NYC, and a briefer one in Frankfurt International Airport, I have made it to London and my relatives' house in Balham.
This means I'll hopefully be able to post some pictures now, so check back on the old posts to see the nice shiny new posts rejuvenated by some masterful photography.
The direction I crossed North America meant each city was generally better than the last and this inevitably culminated in NYC, the city that never sleeps, particularly on the corner of 103rd St and Amsterdam Ave, where I was attempting to.
NB. This was the location of Hostelling International NY, the largest hostel in the world - I wasn't actually trying to sleep on a street corner.
I had 3.5 days in NYC, which was simultaneously enough and not enough time.
The weather was perfect, 25-28 degrees each day, and I managed to see most of the touristy stuff, but to have seen Harlem, Brooklyn etc. in more detail and spent more time in museums, and gone through every neighbourhood more closely, rather than on the back of a double decker sightseeing bus (which is what I was forced to do with only 3 days), would have required a few weeks. This in turn would have required a few thousand dollars thanks to accomodation, food, transport and bloody tips!
I spent alot of time in Central Park relaxing in the sun or walking through it to Museum Mile. When you see the massive metropolis that is just Manhattan, the importance of a place like Central Park becomes very obvious.
Various group members were leaving at different times over those few days, but we spent a couple of nights together in the Lower East Side, and Chinatown and Little Italy.
I went up the Empire State building, on the Staten Island ferry, to the World Trade Center site, Wall St, the UN, as well as a night tour of Downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn.
My favourite part was probably at the annual Times Square food festival thingy, where you could sample food from all the surrounding restaurants with tickets you could buy for $5 or $10. They had a special audience participation performance from the show 'Drumstruck' with 60-70 people playing djembes together(They are similar to bongos or congas).
This means I'll hopefully be able to post some pictures now, so check back on the old posts to see the nice shiny new posts rejuvenated by some masterful photography.
The direction I crossed North America meant each city was generally better than the last and this inevitably culminated in NYC, the city that never sleeps, particularly on the corner of 103rd St and Amsterdam Ave, where I was attempting to.
NB. This was the location of Hostelling International NY, the largest hostel in the world - I wasn't actually trying to sleep on a street corner.
I had 3.5 days in NYC, which was simultaneously enough and not enough time.
The weather was perfect, 25-28 degrees each day, and I managed to see most of the touristy stuff, but to have seen Harlem, Brooklyn etc. in more detail and spent more time in museums, and gone through every neighbourhood more closely, rather than on the back of a double decker sightseeing bus (which is what I was forced to do with only 3 days), would have required a few weeks. This in turn would have required a few thousand dollars thanks to accomodation, food, transport and bloody tips!
I spent alot of time in Central Park relaxing in the sun or walking through it to Museum Mile. When you see the massive metropolis that is just Manhattan, the importance of a place like Central Park becomes very obvious.
Various group members were leaving at different times over those few days, but we spent a couple of nights together in the Lower East Side, and Chinatown and Little Italy.
I went up the Empire State building, on the Staten Island ferry, to the World Trade Center site, Wall St, the UN, as well as a night tour of Downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn.
My favourite part was probably at the annual Times Square food festival thingy, where you could sample food from all the surrounding restaurants with tickets you could buy for $5 or $10. They had a special audience participation performance from the show 'Drumstruck' with 60-70 people playing djembes together(They are similar to bongos or congas).
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