Only now, breathing the (relatively) fresh air of the tree-lined streets of Palo Alto, am I digesting just how hot and hectic New York was. It's like the pressure of the thick, stifling humidity and the legendary pace and attitude radiating out from Manhattan left little room in my psyche... More »
Archive for June 2005
Melting in New York
I've arrived in New York in the middle of an unfeasibly sticky, debilitating heatwave. Managed to get my fix of tourism from the Staten Island ferry trip; pondered the morbidly magnetic World Trade Center site; soaked up the hipster ambience of Williamsburg in Brooklyn (graffiti pictured is from there); and... More »
New York
Arrived in New York. No hassle at customs (apart from being fingerprinted, of course). I'm still pretty phased to be here, to be so far from the lands I've so far visited (i.e. Europe), to be somewhere so curiously familiar and alien. Have to say I'm loving it so far. Firstly,... More »
Does anybody have any questions?
A thought occurred to me: if anyone's reading this, they might be curious about something or other that someone I interview on my trip to the States might have to say. (I'm trying to not picture me sat there saying, "And one of our readers in Milton Keynes wanted to... More »
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