So having arrived in more or less one piece, day 2 involved getting a sense of my new space for the next two weeks. Lucky for me, I was meeting up with my friend Leah who was three weeks ahead in her journey of discovery, so heading to some iconic and relative spots was easy peasy under her guidance!
After buying my first metro pass (from a somewhat confusing machine, we jumped on the subway (wasnt so different to a Melbourne train) and headed to grand central station in search of a greasy brekky fry up. Unfortunately we only found a whole bunch of places not ready for business and an overwhelming urge to take photos! ( just realised the are all on
My other camera which is yet to be dl’ed)
We did finally find food, brekky no. Consisted of French toast and bacon ( I know! What was I thinking! Tasted pretty good though despite the calories I attracted just from
Looking!..)
The rest of day was followed up with random wonderings into some amazing shops such as Anthropology, Marimekko, muji, the Lego shop plus somany more that I have already forgotten the names off. We saw the Flatrion building, ate burgers from the Shake Shake in Madison Square gardens, saw wild squirrels, popped into the NYC public library ( saw those lions!) and discovered that Bangkok was not the only place one could buy crazy cheap (crazy tack) bling costume fit for a ‘queen’! And finally finished the day with swollen tootsies, a wood fire pizza and a glass of lambrusco in a restaurant that was second ( but fab!) choice due to us being soaked to
the bone having forgotten our brollies and misjudging the actual distance to restaurant choice no.1! Phew! Big day! And only 13 more to go!!
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