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Travel Blogs from New York City
The literary life
... couldn’t get me! Once I made it in the door I made friends with the security guard – I even had my picture taken with her! There’s another lion but even I realised that it was made of Lego! The library is amazingly impressive – it’s just how I’ve always felt a library should be. Shelf upon shelf of books, reading areas and stone carvings – just beautiful.
I also went to the ...
NYC
... was easy to navigate yourself around…unless you’re me with a terrible sense of direction that I didn’t realise was quite so bad. Thank goodness Ez knew where he was going – our Master Navigator.
The weather while we were there was nice for the first few days, blue skies but abit of a chill in the air; nice for walking around. We made sure we went to the main sights in the city before we just had wandering days where we didn’t plan too much. The ...
Tourists, once again!
... district and spent some time at Ground Zero. From there it was off for a free ride on the Staten Island Ferry. The views of downtown from the ferry really can't be beat. We also got some pretty stellar views of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty!
Done with downtown we hopped on the subway and headed back to the village. We were hoping to find the High Line. It's a park that has been created out an old ...
The Rat Race: Running through Mazes...
... on a fresh salad in the Bowling Green before meandering our way back up Broadway towards Union Square where Shane had some appointments with a couple of pet stores. We made a brief stop at the NYU bookstore to add to my collection of American College keepsakes. We lined up behind dozens of students all weighed down with notepads, pens and books for their return to classes after the Labor Day weekend. And of course, as we drew closer to Times Square and our hotel late in the ...
"New York City The Center of the Universe" ~Rent
... betting ones self before trying to improve others. I was very inspired by this, especially because being a Peace Studies major I was constantly confronted with all the problems in the world, and always felt powerless to change them. Instead of focusing on what I couldn’t control, I had to start with myself and “be the change” as Gandhi said. I noticed that ...