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Published: September 11th 2007
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Well last but not least of course the big apple!!! Bit of xmas shopping here me thinks n some good last sight seeing!!!!!!!!!!! Trying to get my sisters, mum or friends to come and meet me here come on guys!!!!!!!!!!!!! just before xmas!!!!!!!!!!!
Wahooo arrived in New York on Thursday 6th December and jeeees man its cold!!!!!! This is my last stop in my 3 month round the world trip how weird and funny, closest ive been to home in 3 months seems weird but all good and its certainly christmasy here which is making me excited to get home!!!!!
Stayed in Broadway Hotel & Hostel in NY, the most expensive hostel ive stayed in my whole trip prob £15 a night, the hostel was oldish and tall and the rooms weren't that great plus had annoying people in my room and it was either too hot or too cold so bit annoying oh well. The hostel was just off Broadway at 101st, in NY the streets and avenues form perfect blocks so everything is done by avenue and street no. it is quite a good system makes finding things pretty easy and the streets laid out pretty well,
as long as you can count the street no.s you're pretty much okay!!!!
I decided to buy a 3 day ticket for a sight seeing bus so i could get around easily and see as much as poss while i was there. It was one of the roofless red buses like they have in London, so really cold on it as most of the time i was in NY it was -2 so freezing compared to what ive been used to!!!!
First of all i took the bus around Uptown Manhattan, NY is mainly made up of Manhattan island, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Jersey & Harlem. Manhattan is the main part really, uptown doesnt have so many exciting sights, Central Park is right in the middle of manhattan so the uptown bus goes up above it and up round harlem, there are some nice churches and cathedrals and then down the eastside of central park down 5th avenue there are lots of museums, it is called museum mile.
Downtown Manhattan is where most of the main sites are and most of the main shopping areas!!!! Times Square is pretty cool looks pretty much like it does on
the tv when you see it!!!! Then there is the Empire State Building which is cool, The Chrysler Building, Statue of Liberty on its little island which is nice but was foggy the day i saw it, The World Trade Centre site, 5th Avenue shopping, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue, Broadway and all the sweet designer shops!!!!!
I ended up each day starting off sight seeing and then always getting distracted and stuck in shops shopping for ages and as it got dark early id have to continue shopping rather than sight seeing so always ended up doing more shopping than sight seeing!!!! Spent a good couple of hours in Abercrombie and Fitch where bought quite a few xmas presents and treats for me, ended up looking for UGG boots in about 20 different shops and department stores no where had them all sold out but Bloomingdales had some limited edition different pink material ones in my size so i got them as they were really cool and then i found the original brown UGG boots that i wanted in my size as well so had to get them plus some for my sis, so ended up buying 3 pairs
of UGGs whoops but they were well cheap $150 cheapest id seen all round the world so was cool with that. Also did a bit of small souvenir shopping and few more xmas bits but as i had to carry everything as handluggage as no room in my bags to pack it away i couldn't buy too much which was annoying so will have to go back another time for xmas shopping as its cool there for shops and christmas time!!!! There are loads of big popular department stores-Macys the most famous, Lord & Taylor, Saks & Bloomigndales plus loads of others all cool.
On Friday night my first whole night in NY i took the sight seeing night light/holiday lights tour bus to see all of the christmas decorartion lights around the city!!!!! Cor they really go to town on this....all of the department stores each have a theme and make a real big effort like nothing you've ever seen before!!!! whole shops completely covered, made to look like xmas presents, snowflake lights all over them etc!!!! There is a big cool star hanging over one of the avenues and loads of christmas trees everywhere covered in lights
plus other lights everywhere they proper love xmas the americans lol!!!!
NewYork is an awesome city tho!!!! Would def go back need longer there at least 7-10 days to see everything and shop lots!!!! The city is very american but also full of tourists and hispanics people from south america who all talk spanish. The yellow cabs really are everywhere and really are new york!!!! The sites are all very cool and seeing the world trade centre site is quite unbelieveable and emotional, unreal that human beings could have done that and how many people lost their lifes is insane and so criminal!!!!!
Central Park is very big and cool, it looked very autumny adn christmasy when i was there, the leaves had alomost all fallen off the trees and it was quite orangey adn browny on the ground at this time, it is a massive open park with a few big pondy lakes in the middle of it, very nice. Lots of people walk, run, skate & bike through the park which is nice.
5th Avenue runs alongside central park and is prob the most famous avenue in newYork with lots of expensive houses and apartments
along it so nice ot live there!!!!!
The Subway in NY is much like the London Underground but a bit older adn prob easier to use as it mainly works by the street no.s adn avenue names.
I alos went over to Brooklyn on the sight seeing bus but it was so cold and a bit wet this day that i didn't get off to see much in Brooklyn i just saw the main sites liek the library, museum and botanical gardens from the bus.
So my time in New York was cool, 4 days is a bit short especially with the amount of shoppping i did, would be nice to go in the summer when it is warmer to see the sites when its not so cold but good to go back at xmas time for xmas shopping, cool city i like it but wouldn't particuarly want to live there or anything.
Flew home from New York to HOME!!!!!! on Monday 10th December, was near on missing my flight if i thad been on time as i left the city so late in rush hour this was the nearest i got to beign late for
any of my flights but as usual it was delayed by about an hour as they always are so was fine!!!! Last flight of the trip!!!!! Was only 7 hours from NY to London but didnt manage to sleep much for some reason cos im well good at sleepign anywhere now which is good!!!! Arrived back into London at about 8.30am GMT time where my big sister picked me up!!!!!!!!! Home for now!!!!!!!
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Nurse Eleanore
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Shopping, Shopping, Shopping
Make sure you buy loads and buy me a cool present! make sure you save money for here. Bet the shopping will be good, wonder if its better than dubai will have to compare notes when you get back!!!