Sunday, 13 April 2008

Well I have been in New York less than 48 hours and feel as if my feet have not touched the ground. We have done so much (thanks to my brother acting as an excellent tour guide) and yet I know we have only scratched the tip of the iceberg! This truly is a city where you can get anything that your heart desires. It has reminded me at times of the lands at the top of the Faraway Tree (I was an avid Enid Blyton fan as a girl) with shops that just sell different types of rice pudding (Rice to Riches) and a restaurant which only serves macoroni cheese! I feel as if we have not stopped eating since we got here - we are no longer hungry but are just having to try everything. Delicious breakfast burritos, fluffly pancake stacks with maple syrup, slow cooked pork buns in China town. Today we ate at a wonderful Mexian restaurant where guacamole was made in front of you at the table - I am wondering when this will hit the UK as it is a great idea - followed by delicious beef fillet tacos and sweet potato chips. We have sipped cocktails at a rooftop bar in the meat district (ubercool) over looking the Hudson River, drank Techinis (hard to describe but a tea equivalent of a cappucino that tastes of autumn... nuts, cinnamon, apple and caramel - truely delicious and unique) at Teany (a wonderful teashop owned by muscian Moby) and eaten pumpkin pancakes, not to mention a trip to Dean and Deluca!

4 comments:

  1. Ohh, it all sounds so delicious and wonderful! You are one lucky woman!

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  2. Wow - sounds fantastic! Particularly like the sound of those Techinis - but the rest sounds (and looks) pretty appealing, too...

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  3. Reading your post so makes me wanna go again. I was there in December but it seems far too long ago. Enjoy the rest of your trip!

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  4. Wow!!, and by the looks of it...you have barely made it any farther than the downtown area (well, the mid-teens), lol...and you've done/seen/eaten so much!! (I'm guessing your brother lives in lower manhattan????) You still have all of mid-town and uptown to conquer - not to mention the 4 other boros :D

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