so after the perfect start - going out drinking with tom and friends the night before and getting 4 hrs sleep (one hour more than before the last flight) i was on my way to LA. Flight was ok but AA are crap compared to ba-no food on the plane, rrrrrrrubbish! TV was quite good though, crappy US sitcoms which i obviously loved. As a bonus flight was only 5hrs when i thought 6. Got a scary Russian cab driver ,who would not stop telling me to get drunk on vodka in a...

so having made the perfect start to my travels (got hammered the night before departure-check. got 3 hours sleep-check. woke up 5mins before the taxi was due-check) i was on my way. Met Blair/Ross and Dave at Heathrow en route to new york. Having left my bags at Tom's apartment me and the boys got the subway up to Harlem (yes, Harlem) to find their hostel. I somehow managed to get myself in a bit of an argument trying to get off the subway and got some of the fam...