Thu 12 April 2007 NEW YORK STATE OF MIND

As one New Yorker apologised to us for the weather today we told him it was no different to what we experience back in Wellington (turns out he'd experienced Wellington and Dunedin's weather too) but today it was freezing and very wet. However we spent all day getting our bearings downtown mainly via a bus tour that we have for 48 hours and saw numerous landmarks (Empire State, Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Macy's etc) before we decide what we will tackle tomorrow. The architecture is amazing and all so old and this town has heaps of character. Rude New Yorkers are a myth as far as we're concerned as people have been alot nicer than on the West coast. As we drove through Greenwich village heaps of Bob Dylan haunts were pointed out to us so along with Muzz's research, we will be going back to check it all out.