A New York Minute.

New York City, what can I say. What a city. Besides boring you with the facts that we saw a tall building or walked through the park I'll just say, I love it. Definitely have to live there at some point. It was hot hot hot. Bangkok. KL and Darwin are the most humid places I remember without going into degree's celcius but NY was up there with them. Made Bangkok look cool this week! Not that I'm complaining. Also its still cheap. Even the the Euro plummetting its easy to get by eat in good restaurants and not spend a fortune. What I can't get over is you can be in middle of downtown or Wall St and still get a drink or food cheaper than Ireland.

We stayed on 113th street, middle of Harlem but also not far from Columbia Uni which was nice. Went to many parts of the city and Coney island and just love the mix of culture, the different faces. You can be sitting on the subway for an hour and travel through so many different countries within that hour. Imagine two of you there on the seat, two pale irish faces and as the hour goes buy it changes from business suits, to chinese, to Puerto rican and then to african american surrounding you. I love it. Different faces, different languages, different hairstyles. Although one things I noticed is you'd hear more of a mix of languages in Ireland than you would in New York.

Walking around Harlem was like walking around Sister Act 2 movie!! Music coming out of the windows, cars blaring hip hop, people sitting around the street relaxing in the summer heat. Loved it!

Met up with a good few friends while there that used to go to Uni in Ireland. Was great to see you all and everyone else I missed out on, sorry my phone wasnt doing the best but will definitely catch up the next time.

We met some very interesting people in the hostel. Including a few long term travellers. One guy who was going for 11 years and had lots of great stories to swap!! Keep saying I'm going to settle down next year but with the amount of suggestions he gave me who knows!! The last day we just ended up hanging out in the hostel for the whole day chatting!!

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