Williamsburg Brooklyn

Even though this was only the second time Youssef had come to visit me in New York, it felt like he was home. He knew all the good spots and could manage the subway sans fautes. In fact he went beyond being a New Yorker and turned hipster on me (even though it took him 2 years to learn what the word means). We were all about the BK this trip. …

We had a huge day of sightseeing yesterday in NYC. Left around 10:30am and got back to our apartment same time in the pm. We had a great day - headed out in the morning - bit crisp but blue skies all around. Walked over the Williamsburg Bridge (where I was pulled up later by NYPD for drinking on it but let's not talk about that) and headed into the …

New technique -
A picture is worth a thousand words... picture with caption is a little over a thousand and so much more convenient when you're lazing about.

Overview -
Went to laundromat, went to dry cleaners who conveniently could not have items ready at the same time as laundromat. Went home, went to laundromat. Went come, …

Ahhhh our ACTUAL last day in NYC. Boy has this city been good to us.

Woke early to clean and get the hell out of our apartment before (very lovely) cuckoo lady was coming over to clean for her next tenants, cos that's what socially awkward people do. At least we exchanged nice handwritten notes, that's ok right? I was pretty jealous of her …

... the sushi is always half price (so just cheap all the time then) with Bronwyn and Toby. Getting the L-train back to Brooklyn afterwards, around midnight, is so different to getting the tube at the same time; the carriage is packed with all ...

Sunday morning we go to the Brooklyn flea market down by the east river edge in Williamsburg. Its stinking hot so we feel a bit dizzy as we wander around the craft food stalls, vintage clothes and furniture. The heat is meant to climb into the 100's this ...

... drops and it rains all day. We even get close to feeling chilly at one point. We take the east river ferry from Williamsburg across to midtown Manhattan to do some shopping.  Whilst getting some refreshments from a (ok we'll admit ...

In the morning we go to the Natural History Museum with Bronwyn. They suggest that you pay $16 entry fee. We suggest that we pay $10 and their passive aggressive attempt to get us to pay the 16 fails (*spot the 3 English girls in the ...

So first thing (i.e. 11am) we move our stuff to Dan's place in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His old flat mate hasn't moved out yet so we just dump our stuff and walk across the Williamsburg Bridge back into Manhattan. Everything runs across this bridge so ...

... Afterwards we walk through Park Slope, a very leafy and beautiful suburb to the bar where Bronwyn works. When we get a cab home we pass the Brooklyn bri(iiiiiiii)dge - this is the closest we have got to it yet!        ...

... ) that is starting to go off a bit. She is a brave solider for the remainder of the day.   Burritos from Brooklyn (which Claire declares her first real  'food success' in New York), it rains all day which cools the temperature, we do ...

... and rightly so!  We finish the day with a lovely meal in Juilliet, one of the oldest restaurants in Williamsburg. Its brilliant because we could never have afforded to eat there ourselves and it was the first bar we went to when moving to ...

Entry containing 5 photos titled: Edie getting in the way of calendar making, Making dinner , Calendar, Calendar(s), Dan's studio/entrance to apartment

... and we jump on a subway to Bedford Ave so they can pick a guitar up for their show from a friend who lives in a swanky Williamsburg apartment with a doorman. When we leave Louise and Becca run down the street in full sight of the doorman in an attempt to ...