Blogs from Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, North America - page 212

Day 6! I arrived in New York and after an eventful jaunt to the hostel (a homeless lady gave me a rude tongue lashing on the subway!) The hostel was located on the north end of central park and I was to have my own room. I would hate to share my room with 50 other people! But hostels aren't as bad as I thought they were going to be. I was able to make it the Museum of Natural History and the Planetarium. Both are a must on any list! There is plenty to see and do at these places. One can actually spend the whole day there and never get bored. Afterwards I went home and was in bed by 8pm. I didn't want to be out late alone and in a strange town. ... read more

The absence of my blog yesterday was due to one single main event that may not have even registered in your head. I'm not calling my readers idiots though, I'm merely explaining that the event is not important outside of America. If you look at the date, you'll understand. Independence Day! A public holiday splattered with festivities and parades and fireworks, a truly momentous day in the American calendar. So, now you know why I haven't added anything, would you like to see what I did both today and the day before? Sure you would. After my internet café trip yesterday, me and Sandy decided it would be best to head back to the hostel, and just wait out the rest of the night until we were ready to sleep and meet up in the morning. ... read more

NEW YORK CITY Ahhh, the Big Apple! What’s not to love?? The purpose…Food & Theater. Pretty simple really. Felicia, Lindsay and I caught the redeye out of Long Beach and we were off. The Waldorf Astoria was not so thrilled as we arrived before 6:00 a.m. and was even less than willing to actually check us into our room. Instead we wandered around town. Sadly, we decided NOT to go see Tom Cruise tape the Today Show because we figured it would be mayhem. Boy were we right! I think it would have been worth it though if I ‘d known Tom was gonna lose it, go off his meds and rip Matt Lauer a new one for being “glib”. Oh well. After a morning of wandering, we napped in the lobby of the hotel (thinking ... read more

Well, I'm really sorry for my sketchy update times. I've been hanging around with this guy from Washington all day, his name's Willy, and time has just flown by. I'm actually just about to see war Of The Worlds and so I'm glad Steve didn't say anything about the storyline! Hehe. Hope everybody's having a great time, here's what I've been up to. Woke up this morning, got dressed kinda quickly because I didn't want to waste any time, and met up with my room-mate on the subway station. We headed to Times Square, and basically first of all we decided to check out what shows we could see. There's this extremely long queue in the ticket line for discounts, so we thought it wasn't worth it just yet and we'd come back later. After that ... read more

We arrived in NY NY at 1:30pm Saturday 26th June via JFK airport and had an abrupt introduction to traffic at it's worst. JFK is only 30k from Manhattan but the trip to our hotel took 3 hours!!! It was amazing and I think the only road rule is 'don't stop'! The Quality Hotel on Broadway is a misnomer - aka is there is NO quality. (Robyn don't be offended, just don't recommend it to anyone else). Two nights later we checked into the HI hostel 10 blocks North on Amsterdam Avenue. It was very clean and comfortable, just lacked a kitchen for us to prepare meals. So we ate out for every meal, mostly Sushi and fruit. Day 2, Sunday was brunch and some fine Jazz at the Blue Note restaurant and jazz bar in ... read more