Day 7. Final day! How depressing! The good thing is that we had a late flight, so could spend the day squeezing in a last bit of sightseeing. After checking out of the hotel we went to Brooklyn to go to Target so Andrew could buy some American tat to bring home (ie peanut butter M and Ms and cookie dough). Then we had about five hours to kill before leaving for the airport, so we went to see what the High Line's all about. Everyone I have spoken to who has been ...

Day 6. Our penultimate day! NOOOO! To try and push away any leaving blues, we needed something energetic and peppy to start the day. Where better than Ellen's Stardust Diner? Loads of people have recommended this place. It's a diner on Broadway just up from Times Square, and the staff are all Broadway gals and gays who sing around you as you eat. It's f***ing ace. Surprisingly it's open for breakfast from 7am, so we had a massive NYC brekkie whilst they belted o...

Day 5. So, today I woke up with a bloody cold. How annoying...And maybe because I am turning into a New Yorker already, or just because the cold dulled my senses, I voluntarily started the day with ANOTHER coffee. That's two! I'll be eating olives and mushrooms next. Anyhoo, we dived in to Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf en route to the Meow Parlour in the Lower East Side. This is one of the wave of cat cafes that are popping up all over the place. They started in Japa...

Day 4. Today started with another big, fat, American-chain breakfast. This time, IHOP! Eggs, bacon, maple syrup and pancakes - the only way to eat brekkie! It was so gut busting...thankfully, we walked it off in the amazing Central Park. You all probably appreciate this already, but it is SO big! We started exploring at the reservoir, which is over 4 miles in circumference, and then wended our way past Belvedere Castle, down through the wooded Ramble, had a walk...

Day 2. AMAZING! I love this city. We woke up incredibly early, and decided to go for an All-American breakfast at...Denny's! SO much food. But it was bloody great. From there we waddled on to Battery Park to get our ferry to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. I'd pre-booked our tickets, and thank God I had as the queue (or LINE!) for tickets was colossal...but we casually sauntered past everyone, mentally triumphantly flicking them the Vs, went through ...