NYC

23rd of december we woke up bright and early at 2pm and began our planning for New York City, which also coincidently coincided with our drinking..nevertheless, it felt like a good idea to get up at 5am the next morning, head down to the bus station and attempt to buy a ticket. Travel is quite expensive in Canada and the US, the bus being the cheapest option, although you are unable to reserve a ticket, despite having paid for it.

Anyway, we got the 6am bus to Bangor, Maine. Conveniently there was a connection to Boston about 45 minutes after our bus arrived so we were hoping for no delays, unfortunately a lady from our bus was caught up at the border for about 2 hours so we getting grumpy about having to spend a night in Bangor and lose an extra day in NYC. Fortunately there was another person on the bus heading to NYC who call his friend who called Greyhound who then waited for us in Bangor, excitement arose...and was then dampened again when we got stuck behind a slow ambulance for the entire trip to Bangor (usually about 1hr 50 min). The bus driver must have been in a good mood because he was still waiting when we arrived about 3 hours late. We raced inside to buy our tickets and jumped on the bus.

Intermission: The trip from Bangor to NYC was not the nicest ride for me, i was vomitting most of the way.

8:30am: arrive in New York, Port Authority. We walk to our accomodation, the Chelsea Hostel, on W 29th and 8th. As we were unable to check in until the afternoon we headed into East Village and then walked around times square and bought a cookie for US4 and a slice for US7. Checked in at 4pm, showered, brushed my teeth, which were still tasting like vomit, yep, gross. Slept till 10pm, then headed downtown for the biggest pizza i've ever seen. Went back to bed at 1am.


Hairdresser in Brooklyn, i think this lady was getting really angry at me and we were just waiting for her cronies to come beat us up so we sped to our lucky escape into the subway.

(Photograph: Wouter Walmink)

(Photograph: Wouter Walmink)

Fans of Leonard Cohen: ner-ner we went to Clinton Street, although it wasn't four am and there wasn't too much music either.

Empire State Building

(Photograph: Wouter Walmink)

Hitch-Hiking to Halifax, St John.