OK I know it’s been over a month but I couldn’t think of another title…
We’ve been here for nearly 6 weeks now, amazing how quickly time flies, and it’s all still going OK despite the odd attack of homesickness…
We’ve still yet to receive our sofa however, and the blow-up bed which we’ve been using as a substitute seems to have developed a puncture, which amazingly Alex managed to find. Thankfully we still have the fold up chairs our lovely landlord loaned us, and apparently our sofa should be here tomorrow…although they said it would be here last Wednesday too…
Last week was the best week I’ve had here so far, there was a Search Marketing conference on in New York which a few of my ex colleagues attended so I managed to get out of the flat and have some fun. On Monday I met up with friends from Totaljobs; Jason, Nick and Dave and we had a few celebratory St Patricks Day drinks in an Irish bar, then on Tuesday Alex and I met up with the lovely Kate from RBI and we had many drinks and a weird curry (it’s very different here). It actually took me a couple of days to recover and I didn’t properly go back out until Saturday when Alex and I met up with Jason again and his brother in Williamsburg to watch more bands – Holy F**k and A Place to Bury Strangers.
Anyway – I haven’t blogged for a couple of weeks so instead of boring everyone with minute details I just thought I’d list some of the highlights…
Walking over Brooklyn Bridge
I’d read about doing this in one of my guide books and I’d really reccomend it – you get an amazing view of New York and the bridge itself is pretty amazing…I also visited Wall Street which apart from being heavily guarded, has some pretty impressive buildings
Finding Prospect Park
About 20 minutes away from our flat is an amazing park – almost twice the size of Hyde Park and the best thing is that they let you have BBQ’s in the summer and even provide grills for you to use.
Discovering Williamsburg
Many bars, gig venues and nice people – I will be spending much more time here!
Finding out about KEXP radio
Seattle’s best radio station is now available in New York as of yesterday – YES! Not very interesting I know, but I’m finding the most boring things to be hugely exciting right now.
