Today we finally made it to the Museum of Modern Art and thanks to Nicole's membership card we walked straight in, past the massive queue and even into the fully booked Tim Burton exhibition and a members only photography exhibition (photos from the 30s, 40s and 50s). I am loving the fact that we have contacts...apparently it's the onyl way to do New York on a budget and quickly! It's a good thing that we did get into those two exhibits because it meant that I a...

Nicole had told us that we absolutely must go to highline park so today that is exactly what we did. It is a funny little place that is not on the main tourist trail and many New Yorkers haven't even heard of it. It is an old rail track that runs above the city streets that they have converted into a park. They haven't got rid of the tracks but made a feature out of them; they have built wooden sun beds, put old train wheels on them and put them on the rails. It ...

We didn't manage to get up early this morning...again...and we had not thought to book ahead so by the time we got to the queue for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island we had to wait two and a half hours! But there was no way we could come to New York and not go to see them, so we did what the British do best and waited in line. Our quiet and orderly queue was briefly interrupted by a group of French guys who thought it was ok to push in. Unfortunately for the...

It is so great being with someone who lives in New York, it means that we are being taken to places that we wouldn't normally go. Our first stop today was Greenwich Village to have a taste of New Yorks best cupcakes and a Sicilian cake called a cannoli. Both of which of course are extremely sweet so we bounced down the street from all the early morning sugar. With our energy levels set to high we set off for the tenement museum. It is a group of flats that were ...

We arrived in New York last night by greyhound bus and it went smoothly until we arrived at Nicole's apartment building (My friend from IMG in London and our home for the week). In my sleepy and rushed state I had written the address down as Apt.B but when we arrived we saw that there was a 1B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B etc etc. We find a flat one the ground floor which has just B on the door so we think that maybe I was right to just write Apt.B....no. We wander around the...