Day 5! We left NYC in the morning to get the bus to Seaside Heights (the location of the tv show Jersey Shore). We walked along the boardwalk beside the beach which is kind of a typical seaside resort, lots of bars and carnival games and rides. Julie was SO excited to see the Shore Store, where the cast worked, and we went on a tour of the house they stayed in. I haven't seen the show so didn't mean much to me, but I did expect the house to be big and modern but ...

Day 4! We couldn't leave New York City without getting a proper bagel, so we met Daniela and she took us to Ess A Bagel for breakfast. There was a pretty private park near the bagel place that we are our breakfast next to a waterfall, it was so cute! Really good bagel but they put enough cream cheese on it to feed an army. Then we headed to The Highline, where we saw the cool mural that's the cover photo for this post! We got off of The Highline at Chelsea market...

Day 3! We started the day with another fruit salad and a pastry from Savoy Bakery, before heading to the 9/11 memorial. The memorial was really nice, a great tribute. We then walked around downtown to see Wall Street and to the Southport Seafront. The Southport was great, last time I was here it was was water damaged from hurricane sandy and nothing was open, but now it's a lovely courtyard with shops bars and cafés. We stayed there for ages lounging on outdoor ...

Day 2! The hostel has a fruit market next door so we bought fruit salads for breakfast and headed to Central Park to hire bikes. Yep, first day in 'Murica and we're off to a healthy start! We cycled around the park for a couple of hours which was really fun, managed to see so much more of the park on our bikes than if we walked - the place is huge!! After we returned the bikes we headed to Greenwich village where we ditched the healthy start and got a slice from...

Day 1! I slept very little on Sunday night because I was so excited about the graduation trip that we've been planning for over 2 years had FINALLY ARRIVED! Woke up at 3.30am, and headed to the airport to meet Julie for our 6am flight to Paris CDG. We had a 5 hour layover in Paris, which sounds bad but was actually pretty cool. Charles de Gaulle airport is about the best airport I've ever been to! It had a museum (about tapestries, it was a tiny and terrible mu...