woohoo...snow in Central Park :)

A New York state of mind

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January 12th 2009
Arriving in New York is like stepping onto a film set. It's so familiar from TV and the movies, and the street names are dropped in so many hiphop tracks that I feel like I know it already. Manhattan Island is also quite small and really easy to navigate with logically numbered blocks, that you can feel at home quite quickly, which is just as well as we only have a few days here. Our flight lan ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more