The highest I got was on the 70th floor of the Rockefeller Center
Walked 63km over three and a half days
My hotel was on 58th West St
The cab to JFK cot $55 including a tip
Spent $37 getting into galleries/attractions
Drank 7 green teas, 3 glasses of wine and 2 diet cokes
Wore 9 pairs of socks
Asked 5 times by waitress in Ellen's Stardust Diner if everything was OK with my meal and 3 times if I'd finished my salad
Saw 2 films (Shutter Island and The Wolfman) and 1 play (The Pride)
And ate 1 slice of strawberry cheesecake
The three questions I'd love to have asked Ben Whishaw* had I had the courage:
1. Are you enjoying your time in New York?
2. Is there a release date for The Tempest?
3. What are you working on next?
And three things I liked**:
1. How friendly everyone is, offering help with directions, assistance in shops and restaurants and pointing out when a shoelace has become untied
2. The New York accent
3. Feeling like I was on a film set for four days
And three things I didn't like so much:
1. How friendly everyone is offering help with directions, finding stuff in shops, pointing out laces are undone...
2. The loud, whiney, American accent that the person sat closest to me always seemed to have while I was trying to write my journal
3. Adding the tax on at the till.
* If anyone out there reading this knows Ben then please ask him
**There were many more than three
Wore 9 pairs of socks
Asked 5 times by waitress in Ellen's Stardust Diner if everything was OK with my meal and 3 times if I'd finished my salad
Saw 2 films (Shutter Island and The Wolfman) and 1 play (The Pride)
And ate 1 slice of strawberry cheesecake
The three questions I'd love to have asked Ben Whishaw* had I had the courage:
1. Are you enjoying your time in New York?
2. Is there a release date for The Tempest?
3. What are you working on next?
And three things I liked**:
1. How friendly everyone is, offering help with directions, assistance in shops and restaurants and pointing out when a shoelace has become untied
2. The New York accent
3. Feeling like I was on a film set for four days
And three things I didn't like so much:
1. How friendly everyone is offering help with directions, finding stuff in shops, pointing out laces are undone...
2. The loud, whiney, American accent that the person sat closest to me always seemed to have while I was trying to write my journal
3. Adding the tax on at the till.
* If anyone out there reading this knows Ben then please ask him
**There were many more than three