The Big Apple

Leaving good friends in Toronto would have been a whole lot tougher if I wasn´t on my way to finally see Amy in New York after 7 weeks on the road. Yayyyy!

Thanks to the UN we did New York in style. No we weren´t flown in from some war torn provence, but there was a big UN convention in town and accommodation was scarce. So reluctantly I traded bunkbeds, mouldy showers, and a hostel on top of nightclub for 24 hour courtsey chilled cranberry juice machines, and daily room service that included mouthwash and shower gel. With this new found taste for a life of style it was appropriate that evenings were spent taking in broadway productions (Chicago and Les Miz), listening to live jazz and feasting on a diverse menu of fine food offered by such a mulitcultural City.

Top 5
1. Seeing Amy come out of the arrival gate at JFK!!!!!!!!!!
2. Walking across Brooklyn Bridge at dusk and taking in the captivating views of a stunning city.
3. Listening to New Yorkers talk as they go about their daily lives (probably had to be there???)
4. Times Square, bright lights and big crowds
5. The view over the city, we did it from the Empire State Building
6. Broadway, not normally my kinda thing but plenty of colour and movement, and a lil bit of skin thanks to the Chicago girls.

New York was sensational. So much to see and do, and so much we didn´t get to ... in the week we didn´t even get out of Manhattan to visit the other boroughs which I´m a bit bummer about. We did spend our final night in Queens as it was near La Guardia airport, but it was a late arrival and early depature... not before Amy had a run in with an enormous rat under our hotel bed though, but that´s her story for another time!