Along with the usual tourist activities, sight seeing Bustours and river cruises, visiting the tops of the Empire State and the Rockerfeller Buildings, visiting the amazing museums and galleries; MOMA (best gallery I’ve ever visited), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History (where my childhood self had an absolute wig out!) We sampled cuisine of the world in Hell’s kitchen, Thai noodles and milk iced tea, Moroccan tagine and tobacco flavoured coffee, Greek kebab with fig and fennel salad, and of course American stake and fries, and Italian American pizza in Soho.

I also caught up on some personal interests; hanging out in Midtown comics at the end of our street, visiting the City Quilter and chatting to them about their own custom design New York fabrics. I bought beads in the Fashion district and scoped out make up in Macy’s and Sephora. We wandered Chinatown, and bought a bottle of TruBlood in the HBO store. And saw the Will Eisner exhibition in MOCCA, the tiny comics museum in Soho paying tribute to New York’s own master of comics.

Nights outs included a Caberet Burlesque night I will never forget at ‘Les Scandal’ on theatre row, where I met the glamorous hostess Bonnie Dunn and Guinness world record Sword Swallower Natasha Veruska (had to be seen to be believed)! And long-form improvised comedy at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, which was hysterically good fun and featured stars from the US version of The Office, Saturday Night Live and Lutz from 30Rock! We even checked out an Irish Bar, ‘Molly Wee’s’ and the barman was from Derry. There’s nothing like getting drunk on cosmopolitans in NYC! (There’s no hangover like it either). I can’t wait till my next trip!
It’s no surprise that I took lots of photos of the city, you can see them here on flickr

First photo of New York, from the 31st floor