(Half)Englishman In New York
I've now been in The Big Apple for over a week and so far I am loving it. The flight on the doomed date of September 11th went without problems and I arrived at my Grandfather's appartment in Manhattan by midnight. The first few days I spent wandering around the city, visiting my Grandfather's local Pubs during the day, attending the Yom Kippur service at the Synagogue and then meeting my Swedish friends, Malin and Cicci who live here, by night. On Sunday Eric arrived, the very attentive reader might remember this character from my last trip as we first met in East Africa more than a year ago. Eric had a jampacked whirlwind of a tour planned for the next few days, and he took me on a culinary and cultural trip going deep into the different suburbs and boroughs of New York to find the best cuisine from all around the planet. It really is interesting how one city can have so many different neighborhoods, and walking around one corner can take you from Latin America to India in a heartbeat. Eric's sister kindly let us stay in her appartment for a couple of nights and she invited us out for dinner with her wealthy Norweigan friend, who took us out to some very fancy restaurants where the total bills were probably more than my monthly budget, sometimes life as backpacker isn't so tough. I will probably stay in the city for a week or so longer, before moving on to new destinations.
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