Sightseeing and Museum Legs

The Statue of Liberty would have been a 7 but gets a 5 because I had to wait for around 2 hours for all the various ferries. Empire State gets 9 because the views really were great and the security staff were actually polite! The Metropolitan Museum of Art is massive, I was fed up with the security and most of the art was not that interesting. 4/10. I mean they search your bag when you come in, then you have to check it in as well, but you have to take half the stuff out of your bag (anything electronic or valuable) and carry it around in a little plastic bag. It wouldn't be so bad but the staff treat you like it's your fault they have to go through this ridiculous process, they give you no patience let alone apology, I've begun to find it pretty infuriating.

But anyway, off to Orlando today! See you soon Lewis me ol' mucker.

Best Pizza in The World?

Following Lewis's reccomendation I went to Grand Central station and got some pizza. The pizza was actually pretty bloody good, definitely a contender for the best pizza I've ever eaten at least. I also got some pretty good cheescake which I ate in the park.

There was also a really good jazz trio that started up in the park, and it was nice and sunny so I watched them whilst I let my cheesecake go down. Speaking of jazz I went to the show with Victor last night, it was technically amazing but the level of jazz was a couple of notches higher than I could appreciate most of the night. At times it did sound a bit like a pig had fallen in the piano and a giant rabbit was sitting on the drum kit. The bass player was very good though.

After the afternoon jazz I went to the Guggenheim, which is like a big white flowerpot, or an upside down Mr Whippy. It's also (yet another) modern art gallery. It was nice though, smaller and much more manageable than MoMA, and nicer too, more concise I suppose. Even though the main exhibit was photography, which I'm not sure is really art, espcially when you're taking photo's of other photo's and it's all blurry and shit, but it was pretty enjoyable.

History & Victor the Swede

The museum was pretty big, I was there for about 6 hours and I still didn't see everything. There was a planet-arium with a film about stars and the universe narrated by Whoopi Goldberg; I fell asleep. The rest was about 70% stuffed animals and 30% ethnic peoples, like Indians and people who live on islands and that. It was pretty cool but really big. I took a lot of photos of dead Asian mammals' faces.

This morning at breakfast I met this guy Victor and we decided to take the free ferry to Staten Island, which goes past the Statue of Liberty. The weather recently has been pretty good but today was really windy and quite cold. There wasn't much to do on Staten Island either, and we left pretty quickly. We went to Macy's, which was a bit disappointing, and through Times Square where we saw the Toys R Us, which has a ferris wheel inside, and the M'n'Ms shop, which was impressive just because there is such a thing - three floors too! Victor has plans to go to a Jazz show tonight, and I might tag along. Jazz in New York feels pretty appropriate, especially after reading Catcher in The Rye.

Day 2 in New York

I saw the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, the Brooklyn Bridge, City Hall, lots of hipsters, China Town, Little Italy, another modern art gallery, Times Sqaure again and a Broadway Show. Today I'm off to the natural history museum I think because it's raining. Phew!

Arrived in NYC

I finally managed to find my hostel, I went to 36 110th Street, but it was actually on 106th street. All these street numbers need some consideration on my part. So today was my full day in the Big Apple and it has been an experience for sure, I'm going to cover it with bullet points:

But so far it is very cool, I started reading Catcher in the Rye in Central Park and Holden Caulfield starts talking about a pond which I am literally right next to!