7 Days in New York City

Well, I’m fresh back from the Big Apple with a face battered by icy winds and feet broken by at least 30,000 steps a day in barefoot shoes, but what a trip to kick the year off with.

Like all great world cities New York is a cocktail of diversity in people, cultures, food, architecture and luckily conditions when I was there. I’d visited once before as a wide-eyed 18 year old with Emily many years ago, but we didn’t stray too far from midtown on that trip for fear of being out of reach of restaurants dedicated to fleecing tourists, so this time I was keen to get a little further afield. The trouble is, doing so makes you realise how woefully inadequate a 6 night stay is.

I’ll be back, maybe in summer next time, but here’s a selection of what I saw on this trip…