Snapshots

Here are a few snap shots to summarise my trip to New York; the best bits and the Fantastic sights.

Us on 3rd avenue outside a small gift shop doing a mandatory statue of liberty pose.

A yellow cap driving down the streets of Soho.

Us outside the Limo in times Square.

Our faces up in lights in Times Square.

The Subway! our main form of transport for 5 days.

Me and Lauren in the hotel foyer ready for a busy day in NYC.

Me and Em at Tic-Toc Diner after arriving in New York.

Me and Rosie hitting 5th Avenue.

The last photo i took in New York... The setting sun on the New York skyline from a rooftop Cocktail bar in Midtown.

What a truly life changing trip :)

So, after spending five incredible days in this magical city, I'll sign this travel entry off in the words of a true New Yorker in the media...

Until next time, xoxo

We walked from the top of central park, to the very bottom in 3 hours.

We started at the very tip-top of Central park in Uptown New York, we strolled down through the paths and found little gardens, mazes, fountains, sculptures and all the other beautiful wonders in the centre of Manhattan.

I loved seeing all the different people that were in the park, walking their dogs, jogging, living their everyday life. People watching in Central park is simply fascinating!

As we got to the middle of the park we found these amazing trees that looked like a set straight off a Tim Burton movie! the warped branches cast eerie shadows on the floor in a mock horror way like Alice in Wonderland.

This Dude held my camera the wrong way, and we found it hilarious, so I thought I would montage him in as part of the experience.

We met so many friendly people as we walked through central park. We stopped and asked a man to take a photo of us four. After he did, his adorable Lab wanted to join in , and proceeded to jump all over Em...it was so fun.

Whilst at the fountain, i came across a photographer snapping a man with his dog. the shadows cast in this image are beautiful, this photographer certainly had the right idea. (thought I'd take a cheeky snap too).

As we walked through the park, we had to go uphill....and as our feet were frozen we all grumbled a bit, and moaned and huffed. But when we got to the top of the small hill , this is the stunning sight that what we saw....

Us four had a perfect last day walking through central park, and really experiencing the New York weekend Lifestyle.

After walking around the reservoir, to our absolute excitement, we found Central Park Zoo.

$4 in and we got to see snow leopards, polar bears, little monkeys and seals...so worth it!

Horse ride in Central Parc

We decided to see Central park by horse and carriage, $10 each seemed quite a bargain for something so quaint and kind of romantic, ha!

We saw about a tenth of the park and it lasted about 4 minutes...not very impressive.

But this is what we did see....

It was lovely.

We then went on our way to soho!

Our day in Soho

I remember when we got to Soho, my first thought was just "wow". The streets looked like stylish runways off of a Hollywood film. Soho had so much personality, I remember being totally consumed by it, soaking it all in. It was so stylish; an urban paradise.

The newspaper dispensers on the street corners looked so urban and just inspired some kind of Graffiti / trash couture in my head... and this Simpsons sticker on a metal scaffolding structure along with a New York sticker just justified it for me. I loved it!
There were several stalls on the blocks surrounding Soho, and this one particularly grabbed my attention because it had small, framed back catalogues of Vogue.

Riding in style in a limo from Little Italy to Times Square.

We walked through Little Italy after Cannal street and we adored all the quaint, little intimate italian cafe's and restaurants. We all decided on a traditional looking resaurant for dinner, and the food was AMAZING! . The lasagne was like something I'd never tasted before, very authentic!

I loved the exterior setting of this cafe, the old style street clock creates an atmosphere of an old italian street.. it gave this little cafe a great personality and a lovely setting.

After dinner we stood outside the restaurant discussing where our first night in New York city was going to take us next, when a gorgeous white limo pulled up infront of us and the rep of the Limo service asked us if we fancied a lift...obviously our response was "We wish..but we only have under $10 each sooo..."

Well...lets say New Yorkers are very generous to young english fashion students!

This was deffinitly one of my most memorable times in New York, riding in style with the rest of the girls around Midtown New York, up 5th Avenue and ending up in Time Square. We all felt like celebrities, it has to be said..Americans sure know how to be good hosts!

When we arrived in Times Square everyone on the street was looking to see who got out, was it a celebrity? What do I do, my foot slips on the door to the limo and I fall out onto the times Square sidewalk..Glamorous!

Once we got to Times Square we walked up the Red light Stairs and took it the most iconic New York view.

Just the top off the best day ever...we managed to get our faces up in lights in Times Square! Urban outfitters and Nivea were doing a promotion, and we got to have our photo taken and posted up on the big screen.

What made it even better was the caption that read :

For Tim and Matt (our fashion lecturers)

Fashion group, Nottingham, U.K

Fantastic experience!