Englishman in New York
Trip Start
Oct 31, 2007
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Trip End
May 04, 2008
New York City,
New York,
United States
Friday, November 2, 2007
So, day 3 in NYC and am feeling shattered...this city really takes it out of you!
I arrived on Wednesday after good flight and did what i do best...walk. Think Forest Gump, slow him down a notch and there i am. Now some of you are aware of my long distance walking habbits others not quite so but in 3 days, i reckon i've clocked 25 miles. (For those of you who are not awake, i have walked from Bromley to Bexleyheath and from Bluewater to Bexleyheath, just dont ask why i did it coz im not too sure myself)
Anyway, i checked in to my King Suite (with 11 other people) and after my first walk, was well ready for an early night. At 10pm, i was obviously the first one to go to bed and being a hostel novice i had to think long and hard about what i was supposed to wear. Simple i hear you say!? I opted for a nice pair of shorts and woke up in the morning feeling like my selection was a good one
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. The ony annoying thing was that everyone came back at different times throughout the night, which makes it a bugger to try to sleep.So my first attempt at climbing a bunk bed for the first time in err 20 years wasn't the best. It just so happened that my body weight was more than the bed and it decided to tip over on top of me (ok, slightly exagerated but im trying to keep you lot interested) so just aswell no-one was in the room!
Arh, big McDonalds portions.....doesnt exist, its a myth and i am disappointed. Lots of fruit stalls though which is great.
Yesterday i went up to the top of the Rockofella centre, walked around Central Park, went to madison Sq gardens, done 5th Avenue, Macys, etc and generally walked for England or New York depending on how you look at it. Met up with an Oz bloke who lives in the bed below me and had a few beers, met up with a couple of Canadians he meet up with the day before and went to watch a jazz band play til the wee hours which was all good fun.
Today i went to central park again and went on the ice rink, went to Brooklyn this morning and walked back over to Manhattan.
So i only have two days to go and the NYC marathon is on Sunday (not participating as a result of injuries from walking toooo much!) so plan is to go Guggenhiem art gallery and Museum of Modern Art, Boat trip around the statute, etc, Tour of the baseball stadium, wall st and a few more beers.
All feels abit strange looking at tourist attractions on my own but i've got 180+ days to get used to it so not too concerned.
So to summarise, im alive and surviving at the moment....jsut bring on the beach in Fiji. Next stop LA.
Comments
These boots were made for walking......
Bean it sounds like you is doing good. Have you got any pictures of you on the ice rink, as would really like to see that??!!!!
Just a small point, but I do believe they have various means of transport in New York, if you did ever not want to walk somewhere....just an idea ;o)
Love you xxx
New pair of trainers soon - me thinks
Hiya my likkle wandering nomad, you'd better save a bit of energy, you've got another six months of that!!
All sounds fantastic J, or should I say Forest!! Its looking very warm in LA so save those shorts, you not got none of those stripey jimjams, oh I'm dissapointed in you, Forest would have.
Love ya loads
mummo x
Hey jimmy!!
Glad to hear that all is well and that you are truly a traveller now!!
Don't worry son i'm sure you will meet even more people along the way!
Just to update you, we played against UCF reserves over the weekend and managed to pick up our first victory of the season all be it opposition from a lower league. Score was 3-1 with me making adiffference coming on from the bench! What can i say!lol!
Other than that the house is still standing!lol! and as usual i amd at work on a sunday!!!
Look after yourself son and stay in contact.
Wayne(Saffa)
Yay! A fellow walkoholic!
Have you still got soles in your shoes?!
Glad to hear someone elses feet have uncontrollable urges too! I walked around a whole national park in NZ, took two days, didn't realize there was nowhere to get food/water but the feet still refused to stop and choose the speedboat option - not a bad way of exploring though I reckon.
Jazz - ah I'm jealous, did you smoke a cigar and ask for Bourbon on the rocks (is that what they do there? I'm trying to remember old Cagney and Lacey episodes now)
I hope you have some bee-gees to listen to so you can strut like John Travolta 'great waaalk!'
Look forward to hearing about more dorm-antics
Laters fancy-footworker!
Liv
(p.s you don't need sleep when you're travelling ;)
run forest run !!
hi James
i cant get the image of a bunk bed and you wrestling for air space out of my head, makes me smile !! sorry !!Its great to read wot youve been up to so keep 'em coming, keep safe and well
xxxxDawn
yeehaaa
heya bruv
great site this to keep us all upto date! Im wondering if you have been humming that song 'im a legal alien I'm an englishman in new york' or is that just something I could not be able to stop myself doing :)... Have a fab time!!! dal
Re: yeehaaa
yeah definately, New York New York came t mind too!