NY Day 1-1 Our first stop in the cool breeze morning of Manhattan was to go Columbia University. Yunru's canoeing teammate studies there and she has arranged to meet him when she comes NY. Columbia Uni is located at uptown Manhattan near Harlem (where most of the blacks are i was told aka HEI REN QU). But we didnt exactly go into Harlem, so i didnt get a feel of the 'black neighborhood' as yet. The uni was bigg... and it feels real good to walk ard the vast school campus, while enjoying the sun rays on yr face in the [View Full Entry]

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NY Day 1-2 A pic taken at Central Park, stretches across 50 streets of Manhattan!! Yes it's freaking BIG. So if u'r all out to relax, busk in the sun and breathe in the fresh clean air of New York, this is the place to go. Bring a wide spread of food to picnic, lay on the grass and enjoy the warmth of the Big Apple. Since we all had much better things to accomplish, like Shopping, we just took a short walk inside Central Park and out we go onto the busy streets of Manhattan again. :p [View Full Entry]

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NY Day 1-3 We popped by the Museum of Sex, wanting to check out how much 'sex' they have in store...much to the anticipation and multiple requests from jinwei. :p The door of the building leads us right into the souvenir store of the museum. The ticket counter at the side said we got to pay abt $14 i think to view the museum. So while considering, we took a walk ard the shop first. On sale were books on sex, sexual issues, sex toys..blah. Not much actually, but quite a handful of 'educational' books. Then suddenly, the guy mending the [View Full Entry]

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NY Day 1-4 On our way to the Mereopolitan Museum of Art (MMA), we met this grp of 2 girls and a guy in bright colored underwears giving away... yes underwears. Haha that explains the photo! Think they were promoting their gym, as the caption goes "Pay-as-you-go". Dont know why we didnt ask what all those underwear were abt. We just happen to find out ourselves when we passed by a building with the exact same caption some days later. :p Anyway, the walk inside MMA was wow i can say physically exhausting. *sweat* First, the place is ultimate freaking BIG. [View Full Entry]

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This is the start of my first ever Travel Blog. Trying this out for my first time. Wanna document all the wonderful memories i've had in US for the past 2 mths! (13May - 11Jul 2005) The airline we took was EVA Airways. (Taiwan airline) When we first board the plane, we were all pretty disappointed that we had no personal in-flight entertainment! ARGH. But nvm..we still survived. Eat, sleep, strain my neck to check out the tv screen up there in the distance, listen to my MP3 player or just plain staring into space is what i did to pass [View Full Entry]

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New York is an experience - so alive and full of energy!! There is so much to do here that we can't possibly see everything.! We have been to the statue of liberty, empire state building, time square, broadway (and saw phantom of the opera - spectacular), world trade centre site, walked over the brooklyn bridge, and seen all of the little areas like soho and greenwich. You could spend weeks here and still have heaps to do each day. During the week we crossed the border to Canada and went to niagra falls. This was breathtaking. We got absolutely soaked [View Full Entry]

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Our final stop in the US before the real travelling begins!! Sara successfully negotiated the subway to meet her mum at JFK - a 4 hour round trip in total!! We highly recommend meeting your mum at some point on a round the world trip as the standard of accommodation dramatically improves!! The Hyatt was right beside Grand Central Station (a relief with our rucksacks!!) the room overlooked the Chrysler Building - perfect! Were real tourists and took a bus trip to get orientated around Manhatten and then spent the afternoon getting some culture, watcing Denzel Washington (live!!) in Julius [View Full Entry]

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Entry by Gemma. We have a few hours left in New York. Has been a fun-packed few days. Arrived thursday evening on the GreyHound bus. The journey was very comfortable, they even showed a film on the bus- DaddyDayCare, Dave read his book, but i enjoyed the film! Stayed at the Big Apple Hostel, location was brilliant-right off of Time Square, i couldnt believe it. I loved being in the middle of all the action. I loved Time Square at night, it had such a buzzing atmosphere with all the lights and the people. We went straight to the theatre where [View Full Entry]

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From: fran the man Sent: Friday, 29 April 2005. To: everyone Subject: On My Way To London Well New York’s been lovely I’ve almost done it all, Empire state, statue of Liberty, MOMA, Guggenheim, Macys, Bloomingdales, etc not enough quality time at central park though nor have I been to the Met - will try tomorrow though. Am staying in a cool hostel with some cool people and some strange people. I went up the empire state building -no King Kong as he's in Wellington at the moment, It was rather windy but the views over New York were stunning. The [View Full Entry]

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I'm here in New York to visit my friend Ariela who I havn't seen in three years since we met in Peru. There will be no further mention of the Statue of Liberty, Staten Island, Times Square and Fifth Avenue as its already been seen and done. I ventured into Brooklyn. This area is a burough of New York and does have a reputation of being a immigrant and latino neighbourhood with some areas being extremely poor. Many Manhattaners won't venture across into this area which they consider somewhat of a suburb. It has a pretty comprehensive collection including art from [View Full Entry]

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