{"id":57,"date":"2006-11-07T20:56:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T19:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2006-11-07T21:03:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T20:03:16","slug":"start-spreading-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Start Spreading The News…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…I’m blogging today…
\n…I’m gonna tell you all about…
\n…New York… New York…
\n…
\n…now:<\/p>\n

Hello! Yes! I’m blogging! (So stop moaning in the comments! :-) )<\/small><\/p>\n

Well, what a couple of days. It’s been very<\/i> surreal!<\/p>\n

Starting at 4am yesterday did indeed suck, but after a nice Wetherspoons breakfast in Heathrow Airport with my family I was feeling a bit more alive (of course, the drink I had to wake me up (a caffine free Sprite) didn’t *quite* do what I was hoping it to…).<\/p>\n

Following a rather emotional farewell with the folks (it rather sunk in on saying goodbye to them that I was really going away for a year) I made it through security with surprising speed and easiness and managed to get a pint in before heading off onto the plane.<\/p>\n

The plane journey was good actually, with nice comfy seats (I was on an isle seat with two free seats to my left, which was goodness), a bump-free ride and Talledega Nights, Pirates 2 and 3 rather awesome (and in some cases piss-myself-laughing funny) Radio Vobble shows to keep me company.<\/p>\n

Once at the hostel (via a 50 minute taxi ride (which was a lot less insane\/scary as I was expecting – I guess my trip to Rome a few years ago means no driving is scary anymore…)) I unpacked and then trundled for a walk to Central Park – wandering around the reservoir (yep, Central Park has a reservoir) I watched the sunset over the New York horizon, which was truly lovely (beats Pitsea Oil Refinery by sunset – who’d’ve thought it?):<\/p>\n

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After a nice walk around there I trundled back to the hostel (via Subway, ho yes (old habits die hard)) and crashed out in front of the telly.<\/p>\n

I was fast asleep by 7:30pm (12:30am UK time).<\/p>\n

Today, after a 13 hour sleep I grabbed some food from the hostel kitchen (free food for the win) and started my epic trek to the south of the island.<\/p>\n

94th street to south of Wall Street in 3 hours, via a Virgin Megastore and Tower Records (both stores I went in and browsed before realising I have no CD player or DVD player for the next year) and, ahem, Maccie Dees.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, McD’s portions were about normal… although they were about two-thirds of the price in the UK.<\/p>\n

Apparently.<\/p>\n

I didn’t eat anything there so I wouldn’t know.<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

*looks left and right and scarpers*<\/p>\n

Anyway, with tired legs I wandered into this lovely Burger King (no food, just using the net cafe)… ready to go up to Grand Central Station, have some Junior’s Cheese Cake on recommendation of Stu B and go up the Empire State building for sunset.<\/p>\n

I think I’ll use the subway on the way back :-)<\/p>\n

Right, enough typing.<\/p>\n

Toodles,<\/p>\n

Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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