Gotta love New York. This city always promises excitement and always delivers. Slight mistake arriving mid-summer though - outrageously hot and reeking of rotting garbage. Still, you feel like you've reached the peak of what life has to offer when you wander these streets. You really do have the world at feet - every nationality represented, every kind of cuisine, and the cogs of world power clunking away as the business moguls sip lattes.
I have the good fortune of having 2 friends to visit in New York, one in midtown and one in the Bronx, so i got to see and do plenty of new things whilst hanging out and catching up. And i'm very pleased to say i repeated only one activity: the Staten Island ferry - when something is free its hard to resist. The highlights of my activities include a tour of the UN headquarters (dream job), being a member of the audience at a TV show taping, the Lower Eastside Tenements Museum, and a view from the top of the newly re-opened Rockefeller Tower with the best view of the Empire State building and just a sheet of glass separating you from the thrillingly close edge to a 90 storey drop below - gulp. Some of my best memories come from simply pounding the pavement and wandering along as glimpses of landmarks pop out from gaps between buildings. Also the pretzels. Mmmmmm