New York! | vrijdag 1 juli 2011
I'm a little late with updating, too busy/lazy. I've been in New York for a couple of days now, and it has been most exciting. The people are super friendly, and it has so many great restaurants and stores! Wouldn't mind living here. We left Schiphol tuesday morning, so we had to be at the airport really early. The flight went by pretty quickly, I just slept and watched some movies.
After a 8 hour flight we finally arrived at Newark airport, New Jersey. We had to take the Airtrain to Pennstation, and then the subway to Soho. Our hotel is very nice, a big room with great beds. Also the breakfast is amazing! Fresh waffles, muffins, bagels you name it! And the location is great, somewhere near Chinatown and Little Italy.
When we arrived we wandered around Chinatown and grabbed something to eat. Afterwards we hopped on the subway to get on a ferry to long island. Since the weather was so hot, it was nice to have a sea breeze. On the ferry you had a great view of Manhattan and the Brooklyn bridge. Brooklyn was very nice! I loved the cute houses with the little stairs, and they have a great view over Manhattan.
The next couple of days we did a lot of sightseeing and touristy stuff. We've been to Wall's street, Freedom tower, Times Square, Brooklyn Bride. Times Square was so impressive! It has a giant Forever 21 where I'm dying to shop, but since it was allready midnight we decided to come back later this week.
Yesterday we went to midtown, Where Macy's is located. A huge department store where you can get everything from brand clothes to bedsheets. I don't really care for labels, but luckily there was a big sale. I saw a cute dress, which got discounted 50%, so now the price would be $20. And on top of that we got a 10% discount for having a visitors pass!
After Macy's we walked around to see the Empire state building, which we couldn't get a good look at since it was so high. We also saw the Chryslier building and the Grand central Terminal, a huge station with a lovely design. Afterward we went to the Public Library where they held an exposition with pictures and old books. It's a really nice place!
We walked down 5th avenue, a street with all the really expensive designer labels. The stores where humongus! We went to Tifanny's and a few other stores where I felt really out of place. After our elite adventure we took the subway to Little Korea and had a lovely meal! I love the restaurants here in New york, so many choices.
Well there's still a lot to see and do, monday is the 4th of July so there'll be fireworks! Next time I'll post some more pictures.
(My current addiction is making cheesy panorama's!)
Labels: 5th avenue, Brooklyn bridge, Macy, Manhattan panorama, New York, Times square, Travel
