Today we got up really early and went on the Statten Island ferry (im not sure if thats the correct spelling but...) which was free and took us past the statue of liberty which isn't as big as we thought and a lot less impressive than it looks in the movies. then we went on a bus ride to brooklyn which was boring, because brooklyn isn't really very interesting and hasn't got much to say for itself. It was worth it though because we got off the bus in brooklyn a...

Hi everyone, its really cool here, I'm writing this from our hostel at Jazz on the Park, its 7.30 local time, so almost 1ish at home. today we woke up really early and got on the subway downtown to the empire state building which was....high...windy...very very very cold, but really cool, amazing views. we went on a tour round downtown stopping off at ground zero and a church nearby nicknamed 'the tower that stood' because after 9/11 it remained unscathed eve...