Like Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, I have a long and enduring love affair with NY – how can one not love a city that is at the same time full of familiar sites and new discoveries, where the streets are constantly buzzing yet a short walk through parts of Central Park makes you think you are in a forest far away from all the craziness, where you meet people from all over the world who all share my enthusiasm for the city ... what can I say, I just LOVE everything about this place!!!!! Our love affair started after a weeklong trip to the city that never sleeps with the Raisig clan in 1997, blossomed during a short visit a few years later and fully came into bloom when I spent 6 months working there. Ok, enough of the smoochiness otherwise my HTB may get jealous!
We have arrived in NY on Friday and take up Jess and Brian’s kind offer to house us for a few days ... little do they know what they are letting themselves in for A short trip from the airport takes us to their wonderful flat in Jackson Height’s, Queens. Both J and B are very artistic and so their flat is full of little quirky touches which we will shamelessly copy as soon as we are back in HTB’s flat in London. Our two hosts are out-and-about and so we just drop our bags and no 10 minutes later are on the F train over to Manhattan where we meet my good friends Abby and Charles for a speed dating session disguised as a salsa class ... seeing that Abby and I are both spoken for we feel it wise to leave the venue after the lesson and dinner and spend a wonderful evening sitting in a street side bar. When the evening draws to a close, HTB and I discover that getting home by cab is not an option ... please learn from our mistake: DO NOT MENTION that you want to go to Queens before you are seated in the cab, buckled up and well and truly on your way! We spend the entire w/e with J and B and afterwards, HTB and I once again remark that really the highlight of our trip is the fact that we can spend some serious time with our friends! J and B take us along to a wonderful bbq where delicious food is accompanied by far too much wine and beer and interesting conversation, after so many weeks on the road and only eating in restaurants it is a real treat to be in someone’s home and eat home cooked food! Sunday we go for a bike ride in Central Park and chat the afternoon away in a little bar in Long Island City. In the evening J and I pretend we are domestic goddesses and cook the entire content of their recently delivered veg box ... yummy!
Next we are off to Rhode Island to visit Greg’s friend Jessie, who along with her husband Alex and son Ian lives in a beautiful New England-style wood house in the middle of the RI countryside!
We have arrived in NY on Friday and take up Jess and Brian’s kind offer to house us for a few days ... little do they know what they are letting themselves in for A short trip from the airport takes us to their wonderful flat in Jackson Height’s, Queens. Both J and B are very artistic and so their flat is full of little quirky touches which we will shamelessly copy as soon as we are back in HTB’s flat in London. Our two hosts are out-and-about and so we just drop our bags and no 10 minutes later are on the F train over to Manhattan where we meet my good friends Abby and Charles for a speed dating session disguised as a salsa class ... seeing that Abby and I are both spoken for we feel it wise to leave the venue after the lesson and dinner and spend a wonderful evening sitting in a street side bar. When the evening draws to a close, HTB and I discover that getting home by cab is not an option ... please learn from our mistake: DO NOT MENTION that you want to go to Queens before you are seated in the cab, buckled up and well and truly on your way! We spend the entire w/e with J and B and afterwards, HTB and I once again remark that really the highlight of our trip is the fact that we can spend some serious time with our friends! J and B take us along to a wonderful bbq where delicious food is accompanied by far too much wine and beer and interesting conversation, after so many weeks on the road and only eating in restaurants it is a real treat to be in someone’s home and eat home cooked food! Sunday we go for a bike ride in Central Park and chat the afternoon away in a little bar in Long Island City. In the evening J and I pretend we are domestic goddesses and cook the entire content of their recently delivered veg box ... yummy!
Next we are off to Rhode Island to visit Greg’s friend Jessie, who along with her husband Alex and son Ian lives in a beautiful New England-style wood house in the middle of the RI countryside!
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