So, we aim to sightsee today and go for a walk to Tyron Park - it's a bit wet but the park is pretty and at the top we discover a bus service to the city centre so we decide to jump on. We get off at Penn Street and take the green line number 6 to Spring Street. We walk 200 ft. finding "the magic shop" where the Foo Fighters recorded their last song for Sonic Highways, it's pretty well hidden and we can only get a snap of a paper tag name on a doorbell. We walk...

So sore - our heads are pounding! We're checking out today and heading to a place in Washington Heights to stay with a local via Airbnb. It's cheaper and gives us better ideas on the area and lifestyle. So, we grab some food form the buffet opposite and head out in a cab to meet John John - a real New Yorker in every sense - super talkative, loud and confident - but he's really helpful, bright and young. We are wrecked so not in sociable moods at all we crash in...

Today's exciting - it's all about the big boys -Statue of Liberty, Empire State and Chrysler. We head first towards the Empire State building, it's not far from our hostel - but the queues are ridiculous it's at least 90 mins long, we kind of prefer the Chrysler so decide to wait and see which we want to do. We can see the Chrysler from the road, it's a classic Art Deco style beast of a building. We head on towards the mayhem of Wall Street and then towards the...

We're so excited to check out the city today, we plan to walk around and try to get our bearings. We start with the New York Library which is the most beautiful building, marble pillars and white stoned walls and it just smells so fabulously bookie!! We then move on to check out 5th avenue, it's as glam as you'd imagine with its high-end designer stores and well-dressed brats. We stop at Ralph Lauren's cawfee cafe, the nicest flat white we've ever had. Further ...

Off we go - we're straight to the station and not sorry to leave that hostel behind at all. We board around 8am the first part of our journey pre-customs is business class and it's really spacious but sadly, they sold out of those tickets for the latter part. We arrive at customs, the process is quick and easy and we get through no problem, when we move to economy were pleasantly surprised - it's cosy enough and not a bad journey despite being around 13 feckin ...