Blog 37: New York State of Mind: Photos 21 to 42

After a short delay, our plane landed at LaGuardia Airport, and soon after that we were aboard a shuttle bus and on our way to our hotel in Gramercy, a very pleasant neighbourhood in East Village, Midtown Manhattan.

Now, anybody who hasn’t had their head down a rabbit hole (or up their own) for their entire lives is aware (even if they’ve never been there) that NYC is hectic!! But the word hectic takes on a whole new meaning.
We were perversely excited about not only being in New York, but about the fact that we could be involved in an accident, or a road rage incident within the first hour of our arrival, as our minibus driver went to battle with the Manhattan traffic.

When it comes to the amount of people, noise, and the fact that all those mopeds have now turned into yellow taxi cabs, New York isn’t that different to Ho Chi Minh City. But that, thankfully, is where the similarities end. All that chaos seems to have purpose here, and that sense of purpose is, in the main, surrounded by sophistication, class, and charisma.......very unlike Ho Chi Minh City!
Of course, speaking the language

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