Blogs from New York, New York, United States, North America

I woke up at around 8.50am by Steve ringing my room. I picked up the receiver and put it back down straightaway. Soon after, he knocked at the door, just as my alarm went off. Steve and I headed down for our free breakfast whilst Kylie and Scott got ready, and sorted more photos for the rest of the hard drives, before meeting the rest and heading out of the hotel. It was no exaggeration when I say it took 4 hours from me getting up to us getting to the bus stop at the front of the hotel! When we finally reached the Port Authority Bus Terminal, Becca, Kylie and Scott headed to the hostels, whilst Steve, Zach and I headed out into Manhattan. We were arranging to meet Annabel somewhere in the concrete jungle ... read more

I got up an hour earlier than my alarm was set for. D'oh! After quickly showering and dressing ready for my flight, jeans, my walking boots, and my San Francisco top wrapped round my waist, I left my room for the last time, and headed down to reception to check out. I left my rucksack, suitcase and hat case in their storage, before heading to the bus stop and back into Manhattan. When I got there, I had almost 2 hours before I was meeting the others, so i ended walking to Times Square ready for the meet up before turning off at the last block before the Square and ended up at a spot I was last at 6 years ago, when I visited New York with my brothers and sister. I walked by Grand ... read more

Nog even mensen en we gaan weer op avontuur!!! Dit keer New York-Boston-New England-Nova Scotia...(Kan niet wachten) @Home... read more

New york was probably a combination of some of the cities in the USA that we have already been to. It is very expensive compared to other american cities. Public transport cost us a packet. Accomodation was so expensive that we had to stay an hour away, in New Jersey. And I must say although it was clean and cheap, probably the dodgiest area ever. We couldn't even go out for dinner where we were staying so we got delivery most nights. lol. But we made the most of our time. We did the broadway thing by seeing Kristy's favourite muscial Chicago. It was really good. We also made our way on a harbour cruise to the statue of liberty whilst passing the skylines of Manhattan and Brooklyn. We visted Wall street, the Brooklyn bridge, climbed ... read more

New York May 18th Day 9. Having done pretty much all our sight seeing that we wanted to do yesterday with our massive bags on our backs were pretty tired. When I mean pretty tired I mean we got to our hotel at 6. Got into the room and I went for a shower and rich was already asleep in bed. I followed shortly after and we both gained a much needed snooze of 15hrs. The thing was we had a double bed each !! No single bunk in a room of 12 lads snoring in harmony or a fight for the larger sofa. We new where we stood with these beds and it's hard to comprehend how much we appreciated a decent bed. Either way we shouldn't get used to it as another 11weeks of ... read more

As the title says, Blanche du Bois is a mess. Last night I saw a Streetcar Named Desire at the Broadhurst theatre on Broadway. I've seen the moviebunt the play is so so much more. Blanche's selective history and pitiable dishonesty are just no match for Stanley's rough nature. Truly an amazing experience. Afterwards I walked around times square, a square that is incredibly like the Vegas strip. Huge neon signs, billions of slow walking and gawking tourists and shopping. It really is for the tourists, much like the strip is, but that still means it is fun! In the morning I went over to the Met. This museum is the prize of the city and I almost hesitated for a moment about going in. After all, it's a museum where you can't touch anything, where ... read more

JDay 7 May 16th Another morning in toronto unfortunately for me I had the big settee the first night here and it was my turn on the little one needless to say I woke up with a very bad back but I wasn't going to complain it was nice of them to offer us to stay anyway! We had made a silly bet last night that when rebecca wakes up early to go to work she would flip a coin and slap Micheal if it was tails or me if heads sometimes I wonder if our intellectual age will ever get above 12 as we would risk a slap to ourselves to laugh at the other one getting slapped, anyway Rebecca couldn't bring herself to do it thankfully someone is sensible. So our second day started ... read more

Reading my most recent reviews, one might get the impression that I have not liked anything this year. But that would be incorrect. In fact, I really liked 3 different shows, so I'm going to discuss them for a bit.... The first, unfortunately, you will not get a chance to see, because Leap of Faith was a victim of the fierce competition for ticket buyers' money and had its last performance today. The show is based on the Steve Martin of the same name, concerning a con-man/preacher stuck in the small town of Sweetwater, Kansas and pitching his revival tent to scam the locals. The conceit of the show is that we, the audience, are attending a revival meeting at the Saint James Theater in NY and being told the preacher's story in flashback. This allows ... read more