More New York

Trip Start Sep 25, 2008
1
10
21
Trip End Ongoing


Loading Map
Map your own trip!
Map Options
Show trip route
Hide lines
shadow

Flag of United States  , New York,
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

New York has been exactly how I imagined and wanted. I have somehow managed to not get to all of the touristy stuff that I wanted to do, but there is time to do that later on when Joanna and Sylvain come across and the alternatives were just too appealing. We did manage to get to the Museum of Natural History which was one of the highlights of the trip for me. Great big dinosaur bones and a massive blue whale - what more could you want?
On Saturday we went on a Literary Pub Crawl which is run to help fund The Bakerloo Theatre Project - details of the tour can be found here - Bakerloo Pub Crawl and if you are in New York I would thoroughly recommend it. You are taken around pubs in Greenwich with literary connections - we saw the pub that Dylan Thomas died in and the bar that Jack Keroac drank in and an old Speakeasy. Educational and entertaining - it was edutaining.

Over the last couple of days we have been to:
- Alligator Lounge in Brooklyn which gives you a free pizza for every beer you buy - this is the single greatest idea in the world.
- Barcade in Brooklyn which is little more than a warehouse with a bar and many arcade machines. Much fun.
- An amazing drag club (Lucky Chengs) - thank you Anita Handbag for the complimentary communal cocktail. 151 proof rum will pretty much get you instantly drunk.
- A Tiki Bar which we reached from a secret passageway from Lucky Chengs and danced mike morons for most of the night. Ladies night cocktails for $4 could not be passed up on.
 
Yesterday was spent in a most relaxing manner in Central Park. A quick trip to Wholefoods at the Time Warner Centre (which is my new favourite place in the whole world) and we started with a picnic on a rock and then wandered the park for a few hours. Fed some squirrels who rejected Craig's gourmet crackers and failed to find the Central Park Zoo. I was a lovely way to spend my last day in New York.
 
I am setting off for Boston in a couple of hours - I do hope that the Megabus is indeed Mega.
 
Print this entry

Comments

helenbels
helenbels on Oct 1, 2008 at 02:11PM

Addendum
I should point out that it was us who failed to find the Central Park Zoo and not the squirrels as it seems to suggest in that post. Which is a shame - it would have been brilliant to be misguided though Central Park by some Noo Yoik squirrels. Furgedaboutit!

Add Comment