I know you may feel that we’ve laboured it a bit, but wow! What a bad choice of President you appear to have made, when he is in his home city and he required 1 MILLION dollars a day to keep himself safe (at US taxpayers’ expense) is he really an extravagance worth having ( Read more... )

It’s always good to squeeze a bit of culture into these foreign sojourns and after playing amongst the mounds of snow outside in its’ extensive grounds, it was time to actually look at the Egyptian exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum in New York ( Read more... )

It was at this stage of the week where a weird seemingly contradictory pair of realisations sunk in, (a) that the holiday was closer to the end than the beginning and (b) despite having so little time (relatively), there was still so much to cram in ( Read more... )

I think you could sum up Wednesday as the day of rampant commercialism..! Last time I came out here I bought a shit ton of clothes and this time was a repeat performance, following up my Jersey Devils long sleeve top from the night before, with more purchases of t-shirts, shirts and shoes ( Read more... )

Tuesday dawned and our unborn child’s calendar clearly didn’t fit in with New York’s, an early start meant that we got to Chelsea Village before it had even fully opened. We also got a chance to glance at the currently dilapidated and infamous Chelsea Hotel ( Read more... )

Monday, we were up early for a holiday and it’s when you see ordinary folks (like you are, to people visiting your city!) doing the early morning commute, then you really appreciate that you are on holiday ( Read more... )

It didn’t feel like Sunday morning when we woke up and had to get a taxi down to the Statue of Liberty, after it took longer than expected to get subway passes. NY taxis are smooth and lovely, once you get over being on THE WRONG SIDE OF THE FUCKING ROAD ( Read more... )

It’s almost a month since we left New York (it’s now much longer, we went in February!) and while the memories are still kind of fresh, I thought I’d look through what the hell happened! To help reminisce, I’ve cracked open the snack that I ate over there loads but I don’t really eat in Britain. Which means I’m probably addicted to the colourants ( Read more... )

Me and Toni went to New York for the past week! We did so much ace stuff, we had to keep an e-mail record of it, in case we forgot some of it! More of that in another post!

Back in work later today (as I didn't have any more holiday!) I've agreed to stay up, while Toni sleeps from around 9.30 earlier on, so I've been catch up reading LJ till I feel ( Read more... )