Tuesday 7th August After waving our goodbyes to our hosts, we embarked on 'the last of the greyhounds'. They're excellent ways to get around North America cheaply and from a range of locations, but comfort is not top priority! However, buckled and broken, we emerged five hours later into NYC, the Big Apple, or as a certain Mr Sinatra remarked 'New York, New York'.....a city so good they named it twice. Now the thing that strikes you immediately about New York is the pace of everyday life....everybody eats, drinks and communicates on the move, you can catch a taxi on any street corner, and believe me, you actually can get lebonese food at 4am. All of this I expected, but what we weren't prepared for was the humidity. Although not particularly hot, the air was so
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