30-Mar-2009: New York City

We loved NYC so much that we ended up staying for a whole week - and we even found it difficult to leave then! We can now see why everyone raves on about New York!



While in New York, we watched some standup comedy in Greenwich, a local Jazz show in Harlem, were dazzled by the lights at Times Square, wandered around Central Park, admired the amazing art collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.




We devoured delicious slices of New York style pizza, homemade pasta in Little Italy, cheap chinese in Chinatown and also sampled the tasty $1 hotdogs from Gray's Papaya as well as the oh so aromatic caramalised roasted peanuts sold on the side of the streets.

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We found lots of bargains at Macys and Century 21, enjoyed the view of the Manhattan skyline on the Staten Island ferry and also from the top of the Rockerfella Center.


The hotel we stayed in, Park 79, near the Museum of Natural History was fantastic. From what we heard and for the fairly reasonable price we paid, we were expecting a tiny and dingy room, but it ended up actually being one of the nicest and biggest hotel rooms we stayed in during our 4 months away! I think we were really lucky!

We also found Zabars deli on the corner of 80th and Broadway on the first morning we stayed in Manhattan and we ended up going back there from every morning onwards to sample something new from their menu; the bagels, paninis, muffins, pizzas, yoghurts, croissants, slices, soups, coffees - they were all so delicious!!