And we couldn’t have picked a better place to start. After saying a sad goodbye to England, we arrived in New York pumped for the first official leg of our 5 month journey. We checked in to our hostel and headed straight to Time Square for a traditional American dinner at none other than the Hard Rock Café. After a good night sleep we spent the next 5 full days being your typical tourist. Central Park, the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Skyline, Ground Zero, Madison Square Gardens, Yankee Stadium, The Empire State, American Museum of Natural History, you name it, we did them all. We even ventured into Notorious Harlem (being careful of course Mum) to check out the famed Apollo Theatre. The majority of New York’s main attractions are on the island of
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