New York is awesome, just as you would imagine it to be! The city is the same as the pictures but seeing it all first hand was an amazing experience. I loved the holiday, even though it was hot and sweaty, I have tan lines from my sandals on my feet and a 6 hour halt at Lisbon airport bored me to death.
Also, the subway is horrible, absolutely horrible. There are rats, it's hot with no AC, the trains are slow and not very frequent, and the barriers don't let you through until you swipe your card at exactly the right speed - not fun.
Times Square is the best place in the world and I'm in love with it. I'd happily spend every day in my life sitting there, and we got up onto one of the screens there as well which was pretty awesome. We waved at ourselves for like three minutes and like recorded the entire thing.... :/
Look... me in Times Square :)
I would live in New York, even if it was the worst city in the world just for the public library. I have never seen another building as beautiful in my life, and I loved the idea of just reading in there. It was beautiful and massive... Think of all the books!!
Central Park was beautiful, and huge with it's ponds and lakes and fountains and castles and statues and concerts. We sat there for a good hour and spent another good hour walking through it. I can just imagine having picnics and birthday parties there when I'm older!
We also went to Canada which I also loved a lot. It's a beautiful country and the people are lovely. It reminded me a lot of England, but bigger and cheaper. The people we stayed with kept telling us a lot about this huge book store, and it's just a shame that we didn't go to it.
Niagara Falls is extremely beautiful. We spent an entire day sitting by the falls, having a picnic and it was very scenic and beautiful (also there were about four families of our relatives meeting up so there were a good 20 brown people at least.... but it was okay, because half of Canada was brown!)
We also went to Canada's wonderland which is a theme park and it was aweessoommee!! However, I will never understand why humans feel the need to make ourselves purposefully scared for our lives, just for the thrill of it? I'm not complaining though, I love the thrill.
We also saw Now You See Me at the cinema and it was such an amazing movie! I'm surprised at the lack of hype for it, considering how great it was! It has also now become my life's purpose to learn cool new card tricks like this:
My holiday was amazing, and in case you didn't notice... I would love to live in New York City... even though the people and the weather is nicer in England.
I don't think that's ever been said "The weather is nicer in England" but it is! You say you want the heat, but could you really stand 40 degrees Celsius when 25 is a heatwave? And could you survive snow up to your knees when your whole country turns into a chaotic mess with one tiny layer of snow?
I think this post may become too long, but I thought I may share some things I've learnt from this holiday with you:
- Learning Portugese is good while travelling with TAP Portugal
- If you have a 6 hour halt at Lisbon airport, go outside, don't spend it all in the airport
- Lisbon is beautiful... from the plane at least
- Subways suck
- Be prepared for extreme heat in Canada and America
- Books are a necessity on planes and long car rides
- Water is permanently required
- Take a change of clothes on a hot day because you may sweat through your first set (it sounds gross, but trust me)
- When swiping your card on the Subway, make sure you do it at an average speed, not too slow and not too quick, then check the screen - if it says go you push the barrier and walk through (they don't open for you like the London ones) or it may say Please swipe again in which case... you may be stuck. Subways are hell
- If you see a cheap souvenir shop, buy from it, you probably won't have time to 'shop around and re-visit'
I don't know if that was useful, but it sure would have helped me
Love,
The Ham Master
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