Saint Nicholas Inn
Travel Blogs from New York City
Catcher In The Rye
... what happens is kids who are too young to even remember John Lennon put flowers on it, and have their photo taken so that they can update their Facebook pages and have their friends think them to be 'hip'. Whatevs!
This time though, a possibly crazy but devoted fan, dressed like a bikie, comes up - sweeps all the flowers and tributes away, and muttering to himself, starts to build his own little mini shrine of photos ...
Concrete Jungle Wet Dreams Tomato
... but we weren't in a waiting mood so we browsed the Century 21 "designer discount" shop but it was rubbish. Then we walked in the rain to the Staten Island Ferry terminal and caught it over and back to see the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline. Lady Liberty seems much smaller than I thought she would be. Oh, we also saw a guy walking around with a cat on his head. It seemed perfectly looked after and happy. He took it off and put it on his shoulder and it ...
The Epicentre of Cool - NYC
... when we return! I am sure they want to book me into Boarding School so they only have to see me 4 times a year (if only I wasn't in my late 30s).
As I write, CNN is on and as it is election time, the politics of Obama VS Romney is all over the TV, as well as Clinton's Global Initiative (which I am so interested in). I am really enjoying it. I wish we had more of this on our TV screens than Big Brother and The Shire (did I just say that? I must be getting old).
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New York - day 1
... was ok) but fortunately Wayne picked a couple of good options, so as well as my dish I shared some of his. From the Thai place we move to an Irish bar for a bit of people watching while we waited for Kyle to arrive in New York. When he finally got in, sometime after 10pm, we stopped by the hotel room for a bit then headed out for some drinks. We ended up traipsing around for ages and trying out a few bars, but nothing that was really pumping. I think we were in the wrong area of ...
New York City....New York Crazy!
... famous for the hot dog eating contest. So we ended our trip with a hot dog from Cameron's. Back on the subway through Brooklyn and we met up with Emma and Tom for dinner and drinks ontop of the roof at Emma's hotel it was good until these drunk Irish guys started being drunk irish guys and threw a bucket of water off the edge ontop of people trying to get into the bar downstairs lol. Kicked out of out 1st pub in NYC for something we didn't ...