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Hey hey hey!! We thought we had better get this show on the road... we've had soooo much fun over the past month finding our feet as travellers that we've not had time to update this so, from a very comfy sofa in dallas texas we are writing up our blog! Her goes New York.....
We touched down in New York and felt the weight of our rucksacks immediately.. determined to do it the true backpacker stylee and not jump in a cab like we usually would we got the bus and subway to our hostel... the walk up the stairs with 50lbs on ya back feels like your carrying a big kid - it was horrendous!!! We touched down in our hostel and JESUS we thought we'd hit a little hell whole... we were in a mixed room and not a girls one as booked but luckily the guys were nice ( a cute mexican juan and nice english chap Nick) there was another freaky looking man who had his ffat legs out of the sheet ARGHHHHHH HAHAH We checked the bathroom out.. not enough room to do a full turn in let alone wash!! We thought that atleast we've hit the bottom now and found out what we've let ourselves in for!!! (after a few cocktails for dutch courage at a local bar we settled into one bed and cuddled tight for the night!! hahah)
We did all the usual sight seeing in New York- the very grand central park, empire state building, the statue of liberty, ground zero, brooklyn bridge, madison square garden and hit all of the districts.. greenwich, downtown, the meat packing district, wall st, upper east side, times square to name but a few.
The weather was hot hot hot and subway platforms were unbearable- think underground but a trillion times hotter!! however the trains were super cool! phew!!
We did lots of chilling in the parks, central park and bryant park where we watched the monday night movies with a picnic with the new yorkers!!
We hit some brilliant clubs thanks to our friends Oli and Marcus and newly acquireed Big Mack. We went to Cain (turns out to be gay night), Corio's, Marqee, Suzy Wongs, the hudson hotel bar (used in sex and the city) and to the club Home lots of times.. All sooo much fun partying away! We also went on a rooftop bar crawl which was amazing, being so high, drinking with the empire state building a mere stones throw on the 5oth floor!!
We went on a sex and the city tour like true tourist gals and had a whale of a time, we saw carries flat, aidens bar, samanthas apartment and lots of venues used in the show. we also had cupcakes in Magnolias's YUMMY!!!
I went to the jewish deli bar Katz, and sat in the seat where harry met sally and had a scrummy salt beef roll.
We went to this great restruant in the park called tavern on the green, it was sooo pretty inside anf food to die for!!
On independance day we decided to get into the americana and dress up for the occasion- Red white and blue outfits were donned!! We went to New Jersey to watch the fireworks from the rooftops there to get as good view of the river hudson, but as nothing ever turns out to plan we ended up walking down the the road during the fireworks in the spitting rain hahaha!!! still the walk was worth it- we had been invited to our new friends independance day party- when we arrived with marcus and oli we thought WOW.. the estate was huge, a gated community called fort liberte and sooooooo posh!! there we were feeling like prize prats in our american get up (the rich girls gave us dirty looks) but what d'ya know we went down a storm with te rest of them!! haha so we had a beer there and got to know the american families who were there- it all felt so funny. the house was huge!! we then went on to a bar on the estate and met more locals, singing patriotic songs and having a giggle... then on to Home nightclub for more partaying!! Wooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooo
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