New York, New York

New York is BIG. When Central park is a couple of km’s long, and takes up a teeenie part of Manhattan island, you know there is going to be plenty of walking involved. Honestly, we were in NYC for a crazy four days, and were always out and about, so I’ll give you some of the highlights.

Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty – Smaller than I thought. Always looks big on the small screen, but it really just has a massive base. Still worth having a look at, and if you were still able to go up into the statue to the viewing deck (closed post Sept 11) it would be amazing.

Times Square

Times Square – Standing in the middle of Times Square is one of the quintessential New York things, and broadway, wow, crazy busy. Would have been awesome to have gone to see a show there, but I’m still hoping to go and see the Lion King at West End in London. The most fun thing about Times Square is for sure the huge Toys’r’us. This place is so big it has a ferris wheel in the middle of the store. Pretty exciting. They also had a BIG animated T-Rex, I actually found it a big scary. But also HELL COOL! Other highlights, definitely going into the two storey Barbie Fun house. If I had more money, Oktoberfest Barbie would have been coming home with me! Although, with the recent changes to Barbie, she looks like a bit of a slapper. Getting Tom in the Barbie fun house was by far the most hilarious experience, and apparently trying to take a picture…not cool. So for fear of a celebrity style Camera smashing, sorry readers, no visuals of Tom and Barbie☹

Central Park

Central Park was really interesting, it’s so big, and really gorgeous. Walking through there having a hot dog, really good fun. We were lucky our hostel was only a few blocks from the park, so we got to spend a fair amount of time walking around. I didn’t realise but there are actually quite a few sporting facilities in the park, including a mini beach volleyball area. Just a massive sandbox.

Painting at the New York Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art – This was my favourite thing we did in New York, and the best money spent. The Met is so huge, we spent nearly five hours walking around, and covered not even a third of the collection. We picked a few exhibits we were really interested in, and tried to focus on them. But the strangest thing is, you are allowed to take photos in the museum, as long as you don’t use a flash. Which I found a surreal experience, and a little gutting as I had left my camera at the hostel that day! Well excited to see “The death of Socrates”, and my two favourite exhibits were the Modern, and Medieval Armoury. Some of the work in the Modern section were fantastic, and then you had blue canvas. A blue canvas. The Andy Warhols were great to see, and there was some modern portraits that were cool.
But the Armoury was huge, showing full body armour from around the world, and also full horse armour. It was really amazing to see the whole sets that people used to wear into battle. Although, I feel sorry for the poor horses having to carry the whole shebang.

New York, New York

New York, United States