Quickie little post to let you guys know that I’m hopping across the sea for a bit over to Dublin tomorrow for a long weekend of some serious r&r and a mini city break with Erin! I’ve been a bit behind on the post front so I’m having a little break from the Internet and disconnecting for a little while.
That being said we’ll probably be Tweeting and Instagram-ing our way through the Emerald Isle. So ping us suggestions on where to go!
See y’all on the flipside!
Ria
As I keep mentioning this trip to New York was a re-visit holiday rather than a brand new experience.
With parents and mini Cagz in tow it was harder for me to actually go back to some of the more ‘off the grid’ places I’d been before like Strand, Greenwich Village and quiet corners of Central Park. We never ‘explored’ further than Chelsea and I barely brushed past SoHo and didn’t even set foot in Brooklyn. The bitter cold winds and packed schedule confined and exhausted us most days as we collapsed into hotel beds at 5pm to rest up for evening activities. We were seeing family most nights, going to shows we’d booked, celebrating my parent’s wedding anniversary and making sure my sister got to see ‘movie New York’ to the best of our ability.
Though this trip was very much a run around old favourite places I did finally get to make my way to Uptown Manhattan on a bus tour on one of the sunnier afternoons in the city. Whist Midtown and Downtown Manhattan are more recognisable to your average tourist, Uptown is considered more like an expansive neighbourhood in contrast to the busy-ness of it’s more tourist-y counterparts.