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littlemuffinblog · 4 years

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Hello all!

It’s been a long while since I’ve written up a proper blog post on here. I’m most active on my instagram these days, but I’m going to make an effort to post more regularly on my actual page as sometimes I find I cut recipes short to fit them all into the Instagram/Facebook format etc.

I was recently in New York and pretty much centered the entire trip around finding all the good foodie spots, so I figured it deserved a lengthy post! We tended to eat a late brunch and dinner most days, skipping lunch as our hotel had a free snack bar which was very handy. They had fresh fruit, lovely coffee & granola bars in the morning which were great to grab n’go. The options changed from lunch time and included savoury snacks and sweet treats with limitless soft drinks, fizzy water etc. We stayed in the Club Quarter Hotel Midtown near Times Square. It was a brilliant location, lovely room, great value, nice staff and the unlimited snack bar with filtered water on tap was such a bonus. They even gave little bottles to take your water with you! Hotel website linked here.

So, without further ado, here are all of the foodie places in New York during my trip. Hope anyone travelling to NY finds it useful! Thanks to everyone who recommended food spots to me before I went – you all helped to make my trip deliciously good and my foodie self is eternally grateful!

BRUNCH

Bubbys – Easily the single best brunch I have ever had and was the food highlight of the trip for me. We went to the one in Tribeca but they have a few locations. We got the Eggs Benedict and ‘Pancake Flight’. The Eggs benny was to die for, we opted for the version with bacon and added some avocado to it. The pancakes were also EPIC. Super fluffy & thick, they came with berries, nutella, blueberry compote, whipped cream, caramelised banana and toasted walnuts. They also came with maple syrup and butter on the side without even asking – it was a lovely touch. The total bill came to about $60 including a tip and we didn’t get coffees/drinks, only tap water. I honestly can’t wait to go back to NY to have Bubbys again, it was just that good. Bubbys is a definite must! Website here.

@bubbys

Sarabeths – This is super near to Central Park. We had seen on their instagram that they are famous for their french toast so that’s what we went with. For $50 we also got a caraffe of Bellini’s – it’s about 5-6 glasses which were $15 each so it’s good value really ;). I ordered the Almond crusted French toast and my friend went for the ‘Fluffy Fat’ french toast. We also ordered a side of bacon (additional $12). I will say I was quite disappointed with my almond version as when I cut into it, it was actually bone dry in the middle. The whole point of French toast is that it should be eggy/custardy having been soaked in an egg mixture but this was essentially dry almond toast. They were very good and immediately replaced it with the plain version that my friend had ordered. This was absolutely delicious and came with a side of butter and maple syrup. The service was great here and I would definitely recommend the Fluffy Fat french toast and skip the almond version! All in all the bill came to about $115 excl tip. Pricey but it is in a great location and overall the food and drink was lovely. Website here.

@sarabethsnyc

Fresh & Co – We definitely couldn’t leave New York without trying a cream cheese bagel! I had lots of places recommended to me, but we happened to be passing by here and were stuck for time so we just popped in. It wasn’t on the menu and breakfast had just finished, but they made these specially up for us which was really nice. We asked for 2 wholemeal bagels, filled with cream cheese, avocado, crispy bacon and a runny fried egg. We got freshly squeezed orange juice to go with. It was honestly *so* good and hit the spot. Great place to call into if you just want something quick to eat & go. I think it was roughly $12 for the two bagels, with orange juice about $5 extra incl taxes. They have quite a few locations. Website here.

@freshandconyc

DINNER

Ellens Stardust Diner – This place is pretty much as American as it gets. It’s a diner set in the heart of Times Square, waited by Broadway hopefuls who sing and perform throughout the entire meal. They are also famous for their brunch. We headed here our first night and ate dinner here. We went for the Mac n Cheese burger, served with waffle fries. We then shared a Brownie ‘Mudslide’ Sundae for dessert. It was typical American diner food, it was decent and hit the spot but you definitely more so go there for the surroundings than the food. Total bill was about $60 excl tips but be mindful, they send around a separate bucket for the tips for the singers too. Website here.

@ellensstardust

Ottos Tacos – We got these the night we went to Woodbury Common Shopping outlet. It was such a long day and we were absolutely shattered when we got back to our hotel, so we ordered Uber Eats. We opted for a ‘Beyond’ Vegan chorizo taco, chicken taco, chips & guac and rice and beans. The chorizo taco wasn’t great but all in all was a tasty meal and perfect for a late night nibble. Uber eats is super handy if you’re stuck on time/tired and they have no problem delivering to hotels, they had a huuuuge selection of foods available. Website here.

@ottostacos

Otto Pizzeria – We had a lovely dinner at otto pizzeria. We originally wanted to get to Joes pizza which I’d had lots of recommendations for or Scarrs… however otto was closer by and Joes had queues out the door! I opted for a delicious egg pizza washed down by blood orange cocktails. We actually arrived half an hour earlier than our booking and they were lovely about it and immediately seated us. We also got complimentary focaccia & olive oil to start! It did the trick but definitely still have Joes & Scarrs on the pizza list! Website here.

@ottopizzeria

BAKERIES

Levain Bakery – I went to the one just off central park. I had heard a lot of hype about this place. They are famous for their super thick gooey cookies and sweet jesus, they did not disappoint. Some of the best cookies I’ve ever had. All made better by eating them while strolling on lovely sunny day in central park. You wouldn’t even know the bakery is there – it is tiny and down these little steps, I had to ask a local where it was as I couldn’t find it! There was no queue when I was there thankfully, but be mindful of this as apparently there is usually a big wait. The cookies were $4 each and worth every bit and more! Their hot chocolate looked epic too so will definitely be paying here a visit the next time I’m in New york to get it! Definitely put this place on your list. Website here.

@levainbakery

Magnolia Bakery – If you are a fan of Sex in the City, you’ll be familiar with this place. It is just around the block from Carrie Bradshaw’s famous apartment and the bakery featured in the TV show a couple of times making it an instant hit. They are famous for their banana pudding – a creamy pudding filled with banana, sponge and graham crackers. I opted for the small pot (as I was stuffed but couldn’t not go to NY and not try it!). It was absolutely insanely good. I think it was about $5 incl tax and worth it for sure. Next time I’m going to try their cupcakes as I’ve heard they are amazing too. Website here.

@magnoliabakery

Carlos Bakery – If you’ve ever watched Cake Boss, here is a must visit! We went to the one near the Port Tunnel (where we got our bus from to Woodbury Common. We actually got a great deal for this on groupon, I’ve linked it here) The original one is in Hoboken and I believe is worth a visit too! The bakery itself was full of a mix of treats, a lot of artificially coloured american style cakes which wouldn’t be my thing, but their pastries, cookies etc all looked amazing. We were spoiled for choice. M\y friend got an M&M cookie which was really tasty and I got a chocolate hazelnut lobster tail pastry filled with delicious hazelnut creme patisserie and drizzled with nutella. So good. All in all they both came to about $11 dollars. The perfect breakfast to bring on board the 1 hour bus journey! Bakery linked here.

@carlosbakery

OTHER BITS…

Airport Lounge – 51st & Green in Dublin Airport terminal 2. We opted to pay into the lounge before our flight as we had a few hours to kill. It was definitely worth it in my opinion! It was located after pre clearance for the US so it was lovely to relax and unwind knowing you had that already done. It costed €39 to get in at the door, but you can book it online for €35. Our flight was in the morning, so they had a full buffet breakfast bar alongside a cocktail bar and coffee station. You can see the lounge by clicking here.

The Plaza Hotel – We were initially going to book ourselves in for afternoon tea here as we’ve heard rave reviews. It was booked out in the end, but we went their for a drink after our brunch in Sarabeths. We opted for 2 x champagne cocktails each $26 excl tax/tips. They were served with a lovely little snack plate of chilli pumpkin seed chocolate and roasted chickpeas. The cocktails were amazing and the setting was just fabulous. It is pricey, but 100% worth it. We sat in a window seat and watched the world go by, just taking in the surroundings for the afternoon. It was such an activity fulled break, it was lovely to just relax for a while and unwind. Would highly recommend it and I think I would definitely try the afternoon tea the next time I visit! Website here.

@theplazahotel

Tourist Attractions – I figured I may as well pop in the places we went while I’m at it. We pretty much ticked everything off the list except visiting the Brooklyn Bridge and the Highline… next time!

Statue of Liberty – We got a free ferry from Manhattan to Staten Island. You don’t need to pay for the tourist ones and they will try the hard sell to push it on you at the door of the terminal but stand your ground! You can get the commuter ferry for free from Whitehall which goes right past it and you get a very clear view. We just hopped off at the other side and got straight back on it. Took 20 mins – they go every half an hour. Would definitely recommend. Info link here.

Carrie Bradshaws Apartment – Quite near the Statue of Liberty area, about 20 mins in an Uber. It was so cool to see as a SATC fan. It was also just around the corner from Magnolia bakery. Be mindful people actually live in the Apt block when you’re taking photos. Location is here

Ground Zero – We went here en route to statue of liberty as it is quite close by. It was also quite close to Bubbys in Tribeca. We just went to see the memorial which is free but you can go into the museum too. There is a great shopping mall and discounted designer department store nearby called Century 21. Worth a visit too. There is also a target nearby if that’s something you wanted to browse!

Rockefeller Centre – Top of the Rock. We paid about $42 for the ticket to get up. We bought online but they have a ridiculous queue system where you need to validate your online ticket to get a physical one, so the queue was the same for those who didn’t buy online and it cost the exact same. Be prepared to queue, we waited almost an hour to get up but we were told it was unusually busy as it had been raining the 2 days previous. However, the views are absolutely spectacular when you get up, so it was well worth it in the end. You can go at sunset for an extra $10 per ticket which would also be pretty cool.

Woodbury Commons Shopping Outlet – This place is definitely well worth going to if you are in the market for discounted designer handbags / shoes. The clothes were good value too depending on what you’re looking for but the handbags we’re exceptionally cheap with 60%-80% some items depending on what coupons you had/how much you spent. As I mentioned above, we got the return bus from the port terminal near times square. It was $27 on groupon linked here or you can buy it there for $42 so it’s definitely worth getting it online. It took about an hour each way, with a pretty regular time table. It doesn’t open until 10am so we got the 8.30am coach which worked out great. You also get a free coupon book from the information desk when you arrive which is included in your bus ticket.The food was okay there, had a lot of fast food outlets and a Pret A Manger (they are everywhere in NY!) Definitely a must visit if you’re looking to do some shopping! Link for outlet is here.

Central Park – I was really taken with central park. It is so cool to stroll around (especially with some Levain cookies!). You can hire a horse drawn carriage for a pricy $100 per half an hour or a bike cart for $5 per minute. We were initially going to rent bikes but we didn’t bother in the end, instead walking around and taking it all in. Well worth a look. The plaza hotel and Sarabeths were super near here too.

So that’s a wrap! It’s pretty much all I can fit into this post. I hope it’s helpful for any trips you have planned to New York. Please tag me if you visit anywhere I’ve recommended so I can relive the memories… @littlemuffinblog

It was the most epic trip and I will definitely be back! Miss you already NYC.

New York – Foodie & Travel Guide Hello all! It's been a long while since I've written up a proper blog post on here.

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literaryeagle · 7 years

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Yes, it's time for another Yuri!!! on Ice book review! Here is the Enjoy Your Trip! guide, published by Banpresto. It's a short and cute booklet about the skaters' home countries, plus the location where the last three episodes took place for the Grand Prix Final. Check out the front cover art, shown above. Do you see Makkachin on the airplane? So adorable! (The back cover of Enjoy Your Trip! shows Victor, Yuri, Yurio, and Makkachin with the words "Did you enjoy it?") This book is actually one of several travel-themed Yuri!!! on Ice items from Banpresto's "Ichiban Kuji" (Best Lottery). I had to get several items in order to obtain the book, so I'll be covering all of them in this post. But I'll start with the book because it's my favorite thing from this lottery.

It's pretty short (only 14 pages) and most of the text is in Japanese, however there are plenty of charming and colorful illustrations to enjoy, such as screenshots from the anime, photos of real locations, pictures of food, and doodles of Makkachin. There are a few little bits of English and other languages, too. For example, remember the scene in episode 10 when Victor and Chris launched themselves at Yuri in the hotel room? Well, this book has a picture of that with the words "HEY Boy" and a bunch of hearts scribbled on it! Take a look:

Keep reading for the rest of the review, plus a few more pictures!

The book starts with an "Are You Ready?" two-page spread showing the Table of Contents, plus an illustration of Victor, Makkachin, Yuri, and Yurio. (The skater trio are in the same poses used on the back cover of the book, but on these pages they are spaced further apart, and you can see some of their luggage as well.)

After that, we get to the first section of the book, "Enjoy Hasetsu!!!", which is obviously devoted to Yuri's hometown of Hasetsu, Japan. These two pages have some pictures and info about the hot springs, Hasetsu Castle, and the skating rink. Food is a big part of this book, so that means pork cutlet bowls are also covered here. By the way, Makkachin barks in different languages in this book, so for this section the barking is in Japanese, "Wan Wan", and in the Russia part it's "Gav Gav", on the Canada page it's "Bark Bark", and so on. Very cute!

Next, there are two pages called "Love Russia". Although most of the pictures of the skaters in this book are screenshots from the anime, this section includes something new... an illustration of Victor, Yurio, Yuri, Georgi, and Milla as a set of matryoshka dolls! I love it! Check it out:

Isn't that charming? I like that the Victor doll is winking, and that the Georgi doll has the dramatic eye makeup from his "Carabosse" skate.

Moving on, there's a page called "Welcome to China", with cutie Guang-Hong showing us the Great Wall of China, plus more food of course. Then the next page is "Smile Country Thailand", which means that the delightful Phichit is here to show us the sights! Here's a piece of the Thailand page:

After that is a page called "A Breath of Switzerland", so we have Chris introducing us to delicious fondue, and the beautiful Swiss Alps. There's a picture of Chris next to a photo of the Alps with the English text "Nice view and nice guy". Then we have the "I ♥ Canada" page, showing us the northern lights, JJ and Isabella's love, and yummy maple syrup! Minami and Yuri sure are excited about the maple syrup:

The Japanese text in the above image says "Oishisou sugiru!!" ("It looks too delicious!!").

Okay, on to the next page, which is "Come to Kazakhstan". There's a picture of Otabek with a photo of Astana accompanied by the words "CITY BOY", and another picture of Otabek with a photo of Charyn Canyon and the words "Wild guy". There's also a photo of a couple of traditional hats, which Yurio must really like because he's shouting "give me!!!".

Then there's the "Others" page, which is for Italy (Michele), America (Leo), the Czech Republic (Emil), and Korea (Seung Gil). For the final part of the book, we have two pages called "A Yearning Barcelona", because the last few episodes took place in Barcelona, capital of Catalonia (an autonomous community in Spain). The "HEY Boy" picture shown earlier in the review is from this section! This part shows photos of the Sagrada Família, and a pan of paella. There's also a "Fashion report" that discusses what some of the characters wore in episode 10.

Overall, the Enjoy Your Trip! guide is a cute and fun book. I just wish it were longer than 14 pages! Anyway, I said that I would also cover the other "Enjoy your trip!" stuff that I got from this lottery, so here we go. Since this was a lottery, which characters I ended up with for these items was random. First, here is a large can badge... I got my favorite character, Yuri! Score! Check it out:

Next, I also got two little boxes, each containing a rubber strap charm. They're blind boxes, so you don't know which characters you received until you open them. I got Phichit... twice! Well, that's okay, because I like him a lot. Take a look:

Finally, I got two slightly larger boxes containing acrylic charms. Again, they're blind boxes, so I had to open them to find out which characters I got. The first box contained an acrylic stand of Victor with Makkachin, and the second box had little charms of Otakbek and JJ. Cool! Here's a photo:

Oh, and here's what the Victor acrylic stand looks like when it's... well, standing:

Such cute items! Do you want to try acquiring some stuff from this lottery? Aitai Kuji has a page for it on their site, so hopefully that means some of these things are still available, but I have no idea which ones. Keep in mind that it's a lottery, so what items or characters you get is completely random!

Thanks for reading, everyone. I have other official Yuri!!! on Ice merchandise that I’ll be reviewing, so keep checking my blog for new stuff!

#Yuri on Ice #Yuri Katsuki #Victor Nikiforov #victuri #Phichit Chulanont #Christophe Giacometti #Yuri Plisetsky #Georgi Popovich #Milla Babicheva #Kenjiro Minami #Otabek Altin #Jean Jacques Leroy #Makkachin #book review #other merchandise

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chris-carson · 7 years

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The Economist

Up until that day Arthur had spent his life on one branch of a family tree ripe with independent wealth. When they met, his parents joined their respective fortunes—his father’s from a string of agricultural technology patents and his mother’s from a high profile corporate law practice—to bring him, their only child, into a very comfortable nest. He had a cousin that made a fortune with an app that alerts users that their laundry is dry. One aunt made a fortune ghostwriting bestsellers for entrepreneurial men that, like her son, make apps. His uncle was publisher and editor-in-chief of an iconoclastic political magazine called The Ambiguous Review . Then, of course, there were his grandfathers, on both sides, whom he only ever learned to describe as “businessmen.” Call it a blessing or call it a delusion, but Arthur never thought about money. When he finally attempted to fly the nest he only fluttered softly to the ground like a maple seed, where he sank into reverential daydreams about his own lineage. He wasn't mesmerized by the fortunes, no, but by all the ability, the talent. He was sure that equal, or greater, talent was waiting in him for its moment to flower. It was only a matter of finding the right habitat. After four years of college in San Francisco, and three more years there waiting to blossom, Arthur had relocated to Washington DC, to more fertile ground in which to take root.

The week he arrived, the whole historical DC skyline was erased by a thick gray blizzard that, when finally settled, had buried the eastern seaboard under feet of snow. As the city stalled, trying to clear the streets and dig out the metro stations, Arthur stayed indoors, typing. He was planning on starting a blog about DC, an insider's look at the world’s most powerful city. He wrote a few pieces that he never published. Then as quickly as it came, the snow melted away. From his window Arthur could watch clouds of honking geese push their gracefully rounded weight through the thick, misty air. He watched as people, thawed out of their apartments, made their way back to work. But Arthur had no work to go to. He had a freezer full of bagged food from Trader Joe’s and in between episodes of “House of Cards,” Arthur Isaacs began to worry about his future. Something would have to happen.

And something did happen. Arthur’s publishing uncle called one afternoon to say he had a good friend in DC, an economist named Lev Reissmann. He was the world's foremost expert on Sri Lankan rubber imports. Arthur recognized the name from college when Reissmann came to lecture, Arthur’s sophomore year. After hearing him speak, Arthur changed his major for the third time in two years to study economics. When Arthur learned that his uncle knew Reissmann, not as the wizard that had predicted Myanmar's boom in thumbtack sales, but as Levy, fellow Cub Scout and childhood friend, Arthur saw a chance to make a big connection in a city built on connections, and finally do something for himself.

All Arthur had to do was find P Street and hurry to the meet Reissmann. He was already late, but heading in the right direction now, he walked down a long street. Victorian town houses rose above him on either side, with long thin fronts, the paint faded to colors like soft pastel and red brick faded to orange. They were squeezed together like layers in ancient rocks. The leafless limbs of the magnolia trees lining the street bent arthritically in all directions. Parked along the sidewalk was a steady stream of placid luxury sedans and station wagons. The narrowness of the street made it seem like a dry bone that had shrunk under the heat of time. But with the sun at his back Arthur walked quickly through the whole scene, up to a tall house fronted by thick brown stone steps. There was the figure of a man standing at the wide window holding a road atlas but gazing past it and onto the street from under a red baseball cap. It was Reissmann.

The front door was nearly ten feet tall with a big brass door knob and a glinting mail slot. The big front window jutted out from the front of the house and through a thinner pane of glass on the side, Arthur looked into the front parlor room at Reissmann, still standing at the window. The immaculate room could have swallowed Arthur’s entire studio and held room for more. The fireplace alone was larger than Arthur’s kitchen. It was framed by a glittering marble mantle, cut with straight stately lines. Books lined the walls from floor to ceiling. Billowing white sofas sat carelessly in the center of the room surrounding a low table carved from wood fine and red. Arthur stood at the window on the porch waving, trying to catch Reisman's attention but couldn't. Arthur’s own reflection in the glass waved back at him, like it were mocking him from the center of that wonderful room.

How nice it would be to live in one of those, instead of these tiny apartments in these old buildings. In San Francisco, he had shared a basement apartment with his girlfriend Anne Marie, and standing in the cold he suddenly thought of the musky smell that permeated from the carpeting and the constant battle against black mold in the bathroom. Before his last rainy season out west, Arthur remembered getting a call from his cousin, who mentioned that a tech millionaire was looking to invest in something artistic, like a movie. Arthur felt confident he could write a screenplay. He told his girlfriend Anne Marie about the opportunity. She was a small young woman, almost squat, with plump red cheeks and little pea-shaped brown eyes that would droop at the corners when she was excited, and she was excited by the news, as she was by all of Arthur’s opportunities, and much of what he thought and spoke.

“Oh babe, that is so great. I’m so happy for you” Anne Marie had said.

She was working as a waitress in a hotel restaurant to earn a little bit of money while she got her graphic design portfolio together for graduate school. Every night she made a point of bringing sushi home just in case Arthur had forgotten to eat dinner. So while Arthur ate salmon nigiri dipped in soy sauce, he glowed vibrantly with all the ideas he’d ever had over the years that could be used for a screenplay.

But on a night when the rain came, without a sign of letting up, Anne Marie returned from work with her leather jacket pulled over her head, the paper bag of sushi soaked through and torn. After eight months on the screenplay, Arthur had taken a lot of good notes, but hadn't put anything to paper.

“I hope the sushi isn't wet,” Anne Marie said, shaking herself off at the door, and combing her fingers through her dripping hair. Arthur was reading on the couch, a little drunk.

“Hi babe,” Anne Marie said, but Arthur didn't answer.

She walked over to him. “Are you not talking to me tonight?” she asked.

“No, I’m sorry,” Arthur said, “I’m just busy doing some writing.”

She bent down to kiss him. Walking off to the kitchen she asked, “How has the writing been going?”

“Fine,” Arthur said.

“Are you getting a lot done?” she asked.

“Yes,” he said.

“When can I read it?” she asked.

She came back with a glass of water and the sushi on a plate that she placed for Arthur on a low table they kept in front of the sofa and sat down next to him.

Arthur didn't answer. Anne Marie turned the television on. He was better off without her. He was better off here, in the city of his future. It was only a matter of ringing the doorbell. Arthur fired his hand quickly at the brass encased doorbell and heard it chime inside. When he turned back to look in through the window Reissmann was gone, the road atlas rested on the back of one of the white couches. But nobody answered the door. Arthur worried he had done something wrong. Had he imagined hearing the chime? Maybe he had imagined pressing the bell all together. Maybe this wasn't even the right house. In a panic, Arthur fired his hand again. As he did, the door opened and a now hatless Reissmann, bundled in a dusty wool coat and scarf, appeared at the door as the second bell chimed just above the old man’s head. Reissmann gasped and jumped back in surprise.

“Sorry to keep you waiting, Mr. Isaacs,” Reissmann said, hard lines cutting through his forehead, below his marble white hair.

“No, I’m sorry,” Arthur said, “Are you okay? I just didn’t think you heard me.”

“Yes, I’m fine and I can tell you I heard that,” Reissmann said, ducking back inside the house, leaving the door open. Arthur watched him shuffle down the long shadowed hallway to a block of light coming from the back of the house. Arthur began to follow him, only to realize, after three or four steps in, that he had not, in fact, been invited inside. He quietly made his way back out, hoping Reissmann wouldn't see him. Arthur heard muffled voices coming from the back. Dipping his head back through the doorway into the shadows, he asked, loudly, “What was that?” No answer. When Reissmann came back outside holding a briefcase he told Arthur, “I wasn't speaking to you,” and locked up the house.

They walked down the street, back in the direction Arthur had come from. The sun in the late afternoon was low in the sky. It spread a thick blonde light over everything that briefly reminded Arthur of San Francisco. Anne Marie used to squeeze honey that was the same color as the light spreading over everything into her mint tea. Thinking of her like that made it hard for Arthur to concentrate on whatever it was Reissmann was talking about. All that honey she would go through, how greedily she’d squeeze that bear-shaped bottle into her favorite tea cup.

“You live on such a beautiful street,” Arthur said suddenly, cutting Reissmann off in the middle of an anecdote about his son’s tenure.

“Yes, I suppose I can take a little credit for the street,” Reisman said. “You see, when my wife and I bought our place — that was nearly fifty years ago now — this whole street was just full of empty houses. We basically had our pick of where we wanted to live and bought the place for a little more than the money we had in our pockets. Not really, of course, but you get the idea. It was cheap. Now it must be worth...well, millions!”

“You are very lucky,” Arthur said, unsure himself what he meant by lucky.

“Luck has nothing to do with it. We are still working on the house, of course, and that means, still paying for it,” Reissmann said.

“But at least it is yours,” Arthur said.

“Yes,” Reissmann said, “it is ours.”

A silence fell between them as they paused at an intersection. Arthur looked at Reissmann who looked back and gave a forced and toothy smile. Reissmann’s teeth were in bad shape, small, birdlike and brown, his lips were all chapped and cracked and dry. Looking closer, Arthur saw his small and crooked fingers gripping the faux leather briefcase. His chinos had bleach stains near the pockets. He had loosened his scarf, warmed by the walk, revealing the wide collar on his dress shirt poking out of his sweater like a gaping mouth trying to swallow that little head of his.

“I have a late meeting this afternoon, in just about half an hour. I thought we could get coffee at the Bolingbrook Institute, where I work, and bring it to my office, instead of going to the cafe to chat,” Reissmann said as they crossed the street.

When they arrived at The Bolingbrook, Arthur looked up towards the angled glass structure donning the front of the tall, brick building, home to one of DC’s most influential think tanks. Looking up, he could see people walking quickly from one floor to another, working on the world’s finest economic quandaries. They were as busy as ants, moving like quick geckos in a terrarium. Arthur didn't know the first thing about what they did at the Bolingbrook Institute, but he still pictured himself charming Reissmann into an internship, then watched himself rushing down those white steel steps, looking out from inside the glass box at a hopeful young man looking up from the street the way Arthur was. He could see himself invite the boy up to give him an opportunity, just like the great Lev Reisman did for him. He saw it all before even going inside.

Inside though, Reissmann led him silently downstairs to the cafe. Arthur ordered a simple black coffee, while Reissmann got a large cafe au lait. The young woman working the counter had big eyes brown as acorns like they were painted onto her soft, full, brown face. As Arthur tried to pay Reissmann for the coffee, Reissmann was busy following this young woman along the counter, saying, “And please, more milk than coffee.”

She nodded at him without a word. Reissmann, though, was eager to talk. “Your hair looks very pretty today,” he said. She didn't respond as she turned to fill the tall paper cup with more milk. When she turned back, Reissmann asked her, “How are you?”

She nodded and handed him the cup. He took it and said, “Gracias,” with a long, roll of the R. He held up one dollar for her to see, then stuffed it in the tip box with a smile.

This woman was not Mexican or Spanish, and Arthur could see that, but he didn't think he should say anything. He watched Reissmann struggle with his stiff fingers to pour honey into the cup, but didn't offer to help.

Upstairs, Reissmann’s office was spacious, but mostly empty. There was a desk in the center of the room, some wires running from the dusty computer on the desk, back to the outlet below the wide window on the room's back wall, directly behind Reissmann, who sat behind the desk. There was a filing cabinet in the corner. All the drawers were open and empty. Along one wall were stacks of old boxes that looked to be deflating like old pumpkins. There were no bookcases, no phones, the computer wasn't on. It was hard to tell if somebody was just arriving, or on his way out. Reissmann got right to the point.

“We don't have much time,” he said. “So tell me how it is you think I can help you?”

“Well this is a big help,” Arthur said, “just meeting with me like this. I know you are busy, so thank you. I guess I’d like to know if you have any advice for a young person who's just moved here, any advice on how they can make it.”

As he was finishing talking, Reissmann raised his cup to his lips. Arthur watched as the loose top slipped off and he spilled a stream of milky yellow coffee into his lap. Reissmann shrieked and leapt out of his chair.

“It’s fine,” Reissmann said.

“At least it is more milk than coffee, right?” Arthur said.

“Something like that,” and sitting back down Reissmann added, “I don't know what happened.”

“I do,” Arthur said.

“Excuse me?” Reissmann asked.

“The top wasn't on all the way,” Arthur said. “I noticed it downstairs too, but didn't think it was my place to tell you, or say anything.”

Reissmann looked at Arthur for a moment, his lips taut like he was about to say a hundred things, but couldn't start somewhere. “Anyway,” he started after a moment, “to answer your question. Young people have been moving to DC for as long as I've been here and seem to make it, as you say, just fine without any advice from me. You see?”

Arthur nodded.

“In fact, I think there have been entirely too many young people moving here and expecting the city to give them all kinds of things, expecting the city to change for them in all kinds of ways. They don't appreciate the history. They don't appreciate the culture. They don't want to work hard. In fact, it is as if all they want is advice.”

As he went on and on, Arthur saw, in the lines around his forced smile, could hear, between his polite tone, exasperation and annoyance. He thought about San Francisco again, about the last time he spoke to Anne Marie, when he told her he was thinking about leaving and he could see in both the shape her face took and the way her eyes moved, that the surprise and confusion had morphed into anger and resentment. He remembered the way she challenged him to simply say what he wanted, whether it was to leave her or stay with her, it didn't matter but just be a man and say it and stop the excuses. He never did. He told her he was going to visit family on the east coast, but never intended to see her again, and somehow, listening to this old man talk about what he learned in the Peace Corps, Arthur finally understood what it must have been like for her, trying to talk to a cowardly, selfish man.

“Well, thanks for your time,” Arthur said, standing to go, “It was a pleasure to meet you.”

“Sure thing,” Reissmann said, “and good luck.”

The two men never saw each other again, but when Arthur got home he found an email from Reissmann waiting for him with the name and number of a reputable temp agency. There was no response to the Facebook message he had sent Anne Marie a few days before, telling her that he was going to meet Reissmann for coffee. Arthur opened their messages and looked at the little thumbnail picture of her for a minute, then wrote, “Well that couldn’t have gone any better. I think I may get a fellowship at Bolingbrook!!” She never responded to that message either. San Francisco was having a heat wave and the nights there were suddenly warmer and Anne Marie was happy to find herself enjoying bourbon for the first time in her life, and giving up mint tea completely.

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Suzanne Cohon is a able multi-tasker. She spent the aftermost decade architecture her PR abutting into a communications powerhouse, she has an eight-year-old babe with her -husband, CFL abettor Mark Cohon, and she’s additionally an alive philanthropist (she sits on the board for the Ronald McDonald House’s anniversary gala). For her anarchic day-to-day, she sticks to a simple and -stylish uniform: jeans, blazer and architecture studs, amped up with leopard-print Gucci slingbacks, hot blush Brian Atwood pumps or addition best from her 100-pair-strong shoe collection. But at appearance parties and alms dos, she trades out her -working-mom accoutrements for -jumpsuits, ablaze colours and beefy jewellery that ensure she gets noticed.

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Paul Mason

Less than two years into a amusing assignment amount at Ryerson, Paul Mason was active to the Judy Welch agency. In the 26 years since, he’s absolved every above aerodrome in the world, and appeared in ad campaigns for Gap and Donna Karan. But admitting his industry cred, Mason is alert of adorable ever careful or styled. “I’m not actual trendy,” he insists. So what of that hipster beard? His accommodation to stop atom was a allegorical act afterward the afterlife of his mother, but the net aftereffect has additional his modelling career. Mason credits his facial beard with landing his best absorbing gigs yet: “Instead of catalogues, I’m booking crazy editorials,” he says. “For a contempo annual shoot, I spent four hours accepting affected tattoos all over my body. I never would accept done that before.”

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Mason has appeared in ad campaigns for D&G and Hugo Boss, and in editorials for GQ and Fashion.

Style Inspiration

“Daniel Craig, Jude Law—the Brits are appropriate on point with appearance after aggravating too hard.”

His Current Obsessions

The Tomboy

Elaine Lui

When Justin Bieber began aloof about in pants with a bend as baggy as the nation’s aggregate jaw, it became near-impossible to comb up a drop-crotch-pants enthusiast. But whether announcement her contempo memoir, Listen to the Squawking Chicken, or actualization on her daytime allocution show, The Social, Elaine Lui will not canal the drop. (“The fit is adulatory aback it’s put on properly, not center bottomward the ass,” she insists.) Lui favours -tailored clothes with strong, structured shapes—boxy tops, ’80s shoulders, a circumscribed white-pleather anorak she’s beat to threads—that acquiesce her to move from the baby awning to the red carpeting to the dozen circadian posts she writes for her website, LaineyGossip. The one barring to this wearable rule: Lui’s weakness for beautiful, generally absolutely abstract shoes. Akin the best adroit sartorial pragmatist needs a carnality of her own.

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Lui, 40, runs the blog LaineyGossip and co-hosts The Amusing on CTV.

Style Inspiration

“Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gwen Stefani and Kate Moss apperceive absolutely what their appearance brands are. That self-awareness sets them apart.”

Her Current Obsessions

The Print Master

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When J.S. Vann was growing up, the earlier of bristles kids built-in to Cambodian refugees, there was consistently a bed-making apparatus in the house. “My dad would clothier things for us and accomplish abiding we looked absolutely acceptable branch to class,” says Vann. “Even admitting we didn’t allege English, we could still present the appropriate image.” Now, as the artistic administrator for accouterment maker Garrison Bespoke, Vann helps others do the aforementioned thing, whether for Drake (a anorak lined with a best Raptors jersey), the Toronto FC (matching pinstripe three-pieces) or his ancestors (“I accomplish abiding they’re the best dressed for proms and church”). As for his own outfits, it ability be bespatter shoes, checky pants and a houndstooth anorak one day, head-to-toe orange the next. “People allocution about accepting all-embracing style,” he says, “but I really try to alive it.”

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The 34-year-old Vann is the artistic administrator for Garrison Bespoke clothier shop.

Style Inspiration

“Kanye West and Tom Ford. I like that they don’t put banned on their creativity. They accept macho dynamics and shapes.”

His Current Obsessions

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For Jason Burke, sneakers are a lingua franca: they affix him with punk, skate and hip-hop subcultures. Aback accepting his aboriginal Air Jordans at the age of 12, Burke has endemic abutting to 5,000 pairs of shoes. A acceptable block of that collection—snatched up in places like Shanghai, Milan and Copenhagen—is accessible on Burke’s e-commerce site, Snkrbox, for those with a affection for best bliss and a size-12 foot. (Burke would put any of his shoes on the site, admitting he does accept to bouts of seller’s remorse.) “I don’t go places if I can’t abrasion sneakers,” he says. “The Thompson Hotel adopted a sneaker action because of me.” Acquisition him there in apparel with white Chuck Taylors, or angular jeans with an old-school -basketball argot afraid out—unless he aloof awash those -Jordan 11 Concords, in which case, acquisition him there aching the accident over a drink.

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Burke, 39, is a retired CFL amateur who active up affairs for Canada Goose and runs Snkrbox.com.

Style Inspiration

“Kanye West for his attitude. Michael Jordan for his performance. Spike Lee for his cultural influence.”

His Current Obsessions

The Countess

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Lisa Corbo, who grew up in Italy and -Australia, abstruse to dress with ambition from a adolescent age. “You don’t dress for assignment or to affect someone—you dress for yourself. Always.” For Corbo, that bureau authoritative an effort, yet activity effortless—the key to abundant style. A acceptable haircut, adorable shoes, a ablaze lipstick and a acute bark affliction administration are her foundation. “It all starts from within, doesn’t it? The apron is apparently the aftermost affair on my list.” Whether she’s allowance audience at her Yorkville boutique, adequate at home or hosting a fundraiser for the Princess Margaret -Cancer Foundation, Corbo looks -striking. Structured accouterment in adequate fabrics, account accessories and her absolute red aperture complete the picture.

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Corbo, 53, is the co-owner of Yorkville’s George C. boutique

Style Inspiration

“My mother, who calm Dior accessories, and my daughter’s way with airy separates.”

Her Current Obsessions

The Marlboro Man

Markus Anderson

There’s hardly a job Markus Anderson hasn’t captivated in his 11 years with Soho House: he absolved in a waiter, managed the restaurant, again the club and now serves as a -company consultant. But it was his time spent as the House’s all-around associates administrator that shaped Anderson’s style. In London, area he befriended appearance designers like -Alexander McQueen, Anderson came to acknowledge affection structured jackets and a Chelsea boot. (“They accomplish sense—the weather’s bits best of the time,” he says.) In Sydney, area “it’s crazy hot,” he approved out jeans and T-shirts with a tailored fit. Those pieces now serve as article of a compatible for Anderson, with the casual cardigan befuddled in. “I do adore a bit of knitwear,” he says—lucky for him, aback Toronto winters are affluence long.

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Anderson, 37, is a adviser with the Soho Abode group.

Style Inspiration

“The accessible appearance of Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.”

His Current Obsessions

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Morad Reid Affifi is a sartorial -contradiction. He rhapsodizes about the canicule aback men wore their active finest to a hockey adventuresome at Maple Leaf Gardens, but can’t absolutely carelessness his adolescence admiration with disco colours and fits. He donned a tux every Friday night for a month—he acquainted acceptable in it, and his tux bare some wear—yet unapologetically advocates for elastic Havaianas flip-flops. It’s created some abashing in his amusing circle: “My accumulated accompany anticipate I’m a hipster, and my hipster accompany anticipate I’m corporate,” Affifi says. For now, he’s blessed to comedy the bifold agent.

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Style Inspiration

“My dad was a huge influence—he embodied archetypal style. I still abrasion the best Pierre Cardin belt I blanket from him.”

His Current Obsessions

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Ray Civello

Ray Civello feels a little cheated by men’s accouterment options. “Guys accept so few affairs to abrasion annihilation fun,” he says. Still, he’s managed some memorable apparel over the years. In the ’90s, as a adolescent beautician at the Rainbow Room, the city’s hottest salon, he favoured all atramentous layers by Yohji -Yamamoto. These days, he takes meetings, designs salons and reviews financials while cutting glossy apparel in abrupt hues like animate dejected and aubergine, or adventuresome checks. (He opts for akin brighter colours on the golf course.) And, as you ability apprehend from a man who takes sartorial chances, he has a admirable accumulating of accessories: hats, coloured lace-ups, blooming scarves and, of course, about a dozen pairs of his signature thick-rimmed, brave glasses.

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The 56-year-old’s beard authority now comprises 11 salons, bristles training schools and added than a dozen Aveda stores.

Style Inspiration

“Though I’m Italian, I adulation Japanese designers like Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto.”

His Current Obsessions

The Natural

Elissa Mielke

When Elissa Mielke meets with music -producers, she knows she’s one amid array of ambitious singer-songwriters. So she carefully dresses in apparel that are adventuresome or asinine to angle out. Luckily, she has a closet abounding of memorable pieces from best and assignment food to draw from, like bristling leopard-print boots (“They bout nothing, so in my apperception they go with everything”), a hot blush men’s dress anorak (“I feel like I’m not accustomed to be sad aback I’m cutting it”) or one of her 30 best hats. She finds arbitrary pieces in food like Queen West’s Mama Loves You -Vintage—when she comes in, the agents already apperceive what she’ll try on—and Value -Villages in baby towns, “where bodies no -longer accept charge for their sparkly pantsuits.” It takes austere brio to put calm a -stylish accouterments from castaway clothing, and -Mielke’s got it.

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Singer-songwriter Mielke, 24, models for bounded characterization Horses Atelier.

Style Inspiration

“I adulation the women in the Advanced Appearance documentary. And Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine.”

Her Current Obsessions

The Pragmatist

Lance Chung

A career in appearance array of snuck up on Lance Chung. He activated for an internship at Sharp annual while alive on a business amount at the University of Alberta—and the acquaintance stuck. He after active on as the publication’s online editor and amusing media manager, area he drew on his business training to appraise the activity of new labels. “In appearance today, there’s so abundant accent on branding,” he says. “A acknowledged artist knows who they are targeting. They’ve done their research. It’s not abundant to focus on the -creative—they accept to attending at it as a business.” That business-first attitude extends to his wardrobe. He favours basics like brittle white shirts and aphotic jeans, again adds layers like printed ties and arbitrary accessory pins. “I stick to a foundation of acceptable menswear but comedy about with accessories”—a bright eyes that gives Chung his sartorial edge.

Vitals

Chung, 25, is a cast adviser specializing in men’s fashion.

Style Inspiration

“I adore Nick Wooster for his menswear and Lapo Elkann for application account pieces in a way that’s not tacky.”

His Current Obsessions

The Bohos

Sacha Grierson & Lola Flanery

Family is a big accord for Sacha Grierson. Not only does she allotment a business with her mother—Eat My Words, a bakery committed to adopting money for the Stephen Lewis Foundation—but she describes her own babe as her “constant accompaniment in everything.” She’s anesthetized her adulation of aggregate admirable to Lola, who started demography an absorption in clothes at the age of four. “We were activity out and she was determined about putting calm her own ensemble,” says -Grierson. “She did a solid adaptation of ’90s grunge after akin alive it: high-top -Converse, Roots sweatpants, a tutu, a checkerboard shirt and a fur hat. It looked fantastic.”

Vitals

Sacha, 40, co-founded the bakery Eat My Words. Her daughter, Lola, is nine.

Style Inspiration

“Lola and I biking calm a lot. Our appearance is afflicted by our destination.”

Their Current Obsessions

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After 12 years alive in bay street’s accounts shops, Michael Burns fabricated the jump to a tech startup in January. Along with the new job came a added airy wardrobe: the slim, European-cut apparel and cottony ties that he already wore to applicant affairs gave way to jeans and action jackets—and, already in a while, a brace of cowboy boots. But he still projects the composure of a arch man, akin in above accoutrements (the silver-grey at his temples enhances the Clooney vibe). And, aback he throws on a archetypal cape for a fundraising gala—he’s the armchair of the Toronto East -General Hospital Board Foundation and the co-founder of True Patriot Love, an alignment that supports aggressive families—he earns bifold takes from appealing adolescent things and association matrons alike.

Vitals

The 43-year-old exec afresh larboard Thornmark Asset Management for an e-commerce startup alleged AudienceView.

Style Inspiration

“The adult and archetypal men of Hollywood: the Rat Pack, Cary Grant and Sean Connery.”

His Current Obsessions

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Pierre & Tristan Jutras

When it comes to activity put together, Pierre Jutras has his accepted bottomward to a -science: “A acceptable night’s sleep, a abundant workout, a algid battery and a brittle suit.” As admiral of the Spoke Club, he spends best of his canicule in accumulated accoutrements but changes out of it the minute he gets home (his alternative is jeans from Citizens of Humanity or Hugo Boss Orange, a V-neck bodice and high-end sneakers). His four-year-old son, meanwhile, embraces a added all-embracing artful and is acquisitive to aggrandize his appearance horizons. “Tristan’s mother became his claimed stylist the minute he was born, but he has aback developed his own appearance and frequently vetoes some of her choices,” says Jutras.

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Pierre is the 40-something admiral of the Spoke Club. His son, Tristan, is four.

Style Inspiration

“Alain Delon, Cary Grant—I adulation the accessible breeding of ’60s cine stars.”

Their Current Obsessions

The Shopgirls

Sydney Berchtold & Marisa Buchkowsky

As a kid, Sydney Berchtold was consistently dying to get into her three earlier sisters’ -closets. Now she has the best adorable apparel of all—Rosedale’s The Narwhal boutique, area she stocks cool-girl curve like Helmut Lang, Acne and ALC—and area her sisters appear for appearance advice. “I’m absolutely bossy!” she says. “One is into boot-cut jeans, and I acquaint her she’s not accustomed to abrasion them.” -Buchkowsky, for her part, says she’s not as bedeviled with clothes as you ability apprehend (though her accomplishments is in affairs and merchandising; Berchtold’s is interior design). “Marisa consistently looks badass,” says Berchtold, who thinks her partner’s edgy, street-style attending complements her changeable taste. “But Sydney is antic and adventurous,” says -Buchkowsky, “and she has fun with every trend.”

Vitals

Berchtold, 28, and Buchkowsky, 31, are the co-owners of The Narwhal boutique.

Style Inspiration

Berchtold: Jane Birkin, Kate Moss. Buchkowsky: the Olsen twins, the Rolling Stones.

Their Current Obsessions

The Gentleman

Jimmy Molloy

Jimmy Molloy sells alone the best -spectacular houses and condos in neighbourhoods like Rosedale, Forest Hill and Yorkville. It’s a austere business, involving austere money, and he dresses the part: in categorical pinstriped suits, he exudes the aforementioned ambience of ability as his high-profile clients. But Molloy distinguishes himself from the archetypal Bay Street types with the casual blithe sartorial touch. He ability action rainbow-hued socks beneath his signature Gucci oxfords, for instance. Or, for a night out, he’ll bandy on a superb aubergine Armani smoker jacket. You don’t absorb 21 years affiliated to Appearance annual editor-in-chief Bernadette Morra after acquirements a few tricks.

Vitals

The 54-year-old above restaurateur (he acclimated to own the accomplished dining atom Auberge Gavroche) is one of Toronto’s top realtors.

Style Inspiration

“Colin Firth. He’s consistently elegant, but still airy and approachable.”

His Current Obsessions

The Fearless Femme

Vanessa Morcom

When Vanessa Morcom was 19, she adopted clothes that were abbreviate and bound and went able-bodied with a annealed drink. That’s not so unusual—but she additionally ran her own PR firm, administration columnist scheduling for Madonna, Rihanna and Drake. It was a activity that accepted as afflictive as a pleather mini, so at 24, Morcom chucked the company, volunteered with an NGO and relaxed. Now aback in publicity, she brand clothes that are admirable but comfortable. “When I appearance up in my cowboy boots, atramentous jeans and a crisp, white shirt, I’m there to get the job done, not to attending the part,” she says. Bathrobe blazers and cottony jumpsuits are accessible staples for 18-hour days, and on weekends Morcom can be begin in apart able-bodied wear, teaching yoga and brainwork at the Toronto South Detention -Centre. “Both in and out of work,” she says, “I’ve abstruse that you accept to abbreviate it.”

Vitals

The 29-year-old Morcom is the CEO of the publicity abutting Morcom Media.

Style Inspiration

“Marchesa Luisa Casati, the Italian almsman and muse. I aloof feel her spirit.”

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Hotel Paris in Florence

Il CuCu Italy

Spain/Portugal:

Atlantida Hotel Azores

Costa del Sol Hotel Torremolinos Spain

Hotel Don Felipe Segovia Spain

Central/Eastern Europe:

B&B Villa Verde Austria

Cett Czech Republic

Design Jewel Hotel Prague (My choice for Prague)

Grand Hotel Park Dubrovnik, Croatia

Maple Tree Budget Apartments Budapest, Hungary

Palazzo Drusko Deluxe Rooms Montenegro

Tulip Inn Rosa Khutor Black Sea Russia

Palace Pertschy

UK/Ireland:

Best Western Burns Hotel UK

London Town Hotel, Earl’s Court, London, UK

Fleet Street Hotel Dublin

Frederick House Hotel Edinburgh

Marisha’s Guest House Bath, UK

Morehampton Townhouse Dublin

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The Bloke and I have just been to NYC for a week. We have visited once before on our honeymoon in November last year, but as we were there for just over four days we wanted to go back and attempt to see as much as possible that we had missed last time. We chose to go at the beginning of September – arriving on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend – with the hope that the city would be slightly quieter and the following week was back to school.

We wanted to experience both the tourist and non-tourist places, so I spent several weeks before reading blogs and watching vlogs about everything to see and do, mapping out our activities according to each day. This wasn’t set in stone and would allow us to change each daily plan around according to the weather.

We stayed at the Wyndham New Yorker and for the first time ever we received an upgrade to a room on the 40th floor, without even asking. The views were amazing – I didn’t mind the construction work going on as it was fascinating to watch the building development at such a height – and the sunsets were fabulous!

The New Yorker

The view from the side window

The view from the main window

Day One

(Note: this was really day 2 as we arrived at 5.00pm the day before but were so tired we went for a meal and had a short wander around before going to sleep).

Pancakes for breakfast with bacon and maple syrup from the Tik Tock Diner next to the hotel.

Subway pass – 7-Day Metro card for $32. This is perfect for a longer stay as it allows for unlimited subway and bus travel until midnight each day.

Dana’s apartment used in the first Ghostbusters film.

Natural History Museum – dinosaurs, great exhibitions and The Bloke met Dum Dum.

Lunch at Uno Pizzeria and Grill on Columbus Avenue (at the back of the museum). Our server, Parrish, heard our accents and immediately put the football on the TV – I didn’t have the heart to tell him that I wasn’t really a football fan but we had a lovely chat with him. Great food, great service, definitely worth a visit.

Central Park – I had a Bach Partita performed for me by a cellist from Belgium, saw an erhu being played, we walked down to Bow Bridge and Bethesda Terrace and I was delighted to see that the Acapella Soul singers were performing. I first saw these guys in Washington Square in 2010 and have followed their YouTube videos ever since. They’re still amazing. We walked past the Bandshell and down The Mall to the Plaza and the Plaza food court. I ate a beautiful macaron from here.

6 1/2 Avenue – a ‘secret’ street used by locals to cut through the city.

Dana’s apartment

Natural History Museum

Grr. Arg.

The Bloke met Dum Dum

Bow Bridge

On Bow Bridge

Bethesda Terrace

The Bandshell

6 1/2 Avenue

Day Two

Roosevelt Island as the weather was glorious. We got the Roosevelt Island Tramway (which the subway pass can be used on) next to the Queensboro Bridge, which took just a few minutes (there is a subway and bus option too). It was a great decision – there was almost nobody around and we took our time, taking in the amazing views of Manhattan. We walked down to Southport Park where we saw the ruins of the former Smallpox Hospital, and then to the Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park. Stunning.

Serendipity 3 cafe. I ate an amazing buttermilk chicken sandwich and drank an enormous pink lemonade, but they are more famous for their Frrrozen Hot Chocolate and desserts.

Dylan’s Candy Bar. I bought a marshmallow treat, just because.

Roosevelt Island Tramway

View of Manhattan

Roosevelt Island

Smallpox Hospital

Buttermilk chicken from Serendipity 3

Pink lemonade from Serendipity 3

Day Three

The Met Museum. I was a little disappointed at the rooftop bar was closed, but we saw incredible art works that had been on my Bucket List for a long time.

The Guggenheim. More art, and although I generally prefer modern art over most periods, I found some of it to be a little too much. In one section a video was featured that consisted of a man rolling around on the floor. I’m sure that it means something significant to others, but I didn’t get it.

Paley Park – a small hidden park with a waterfall.

The Met

The Guggenheim

The Guggengeim

Paley Park waterfall

Day Four

The Dominique Ansel Bakery for a Cronut. I’ve been wanting to try one of these for a while, and from the reviews I had read I was expecting a massive queue. We were lucky though – it was almost empty, and I managed to eat my Cronut next to their garden.

Washington Square – a beautiful spot to sit and people watch, with the famous arch and a large fountain.

The Stonewall Monument.

Brunch at Buvette, a small French bistro on Grove Street. I ate waffles with gouda, bacon and syrup and drank freshly squeezed orange juice. I was unsure whether that sort of combination would work, but it totally did.

An ‘American Glob’ ice-cream from the Big Gay Ice-Cream Shop, also on Grove Street. I almost had a ‘Salty Pimp’ instead, which isn’t a sentence that I’m used to writing.

Friends Building, also on Grove Street.

Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment in Sex and the City, on Perry Street.

After returning to the hotel for an afternoon siesta, we went up to Mood Fabrics (featured in Project Runway). I met Swatch, the store mascot. Swatch had obviously had enough of life that day.

Bill’s Bar and Burgers next to the Rockefeller Centre.

The Lego Store. The Bloke was in his own personal heaven.

A cronut!!

Dominique Ansel Bakery

Washington Square

Stonewall Monument

Buvette

Big Gay Ice Cream Shop

Carrie Bradshaw’s House on Perry Street

Shadows on the street

Bill’s Bar and Burger

Day Five

Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Park. It was a sweltering 30+ degrees, so The Bloke and I tried to shelter in the shade as much as we possibly could while taking in the breathtaking views. The Bloke found the classic shot of the groynes and so spent some time taking his own shots, while I took the opportunity to sit in the breeze.

Walked across Brooklyn Bridge. It was far busier than the last time we did this in November the year before, but it was rather amusing to watch the insane poses being carried out by the Instagrammers.

Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

The groynes

Lego Bloke had a wonderful time

Walking Brooklyn Bridge

The Bridge

Day Six

Water Taxi down the Hudson. It was much cooler and we got to see the architecture of the lower west side of Manhattan. We exited at Battery Park.

From there we walked to Bowling Green Park, the Charging Bull and Fearless Girl Statues and then to Wall Street.

Ghostbusters Firehouse – we took a short subway ride up to see the iconic building as the last time we visited it was undergoing renovations and almost completely hidden by scaffolding. As I was stood opposite a tourist couple walked down the street and the man suddenly recognised what it was – he obviously didn’t realise it was there at first and I laughed at the sheer expression of awe on his face. I think his bubble was somewhat burst when he had to explain the significance of it to his girlfriend, but still…

Titanic Memorial – a small lighthouse and plaque down by the Southstreet Seaport piers.

Water Taxi from South Pier. It stopped at Brooklyn Bridge and then took a leisurely pace over to the Statue of Liberty. However, as we were traveling back up the Hudson towards Midtown it turned into a speedboat, and i laughed myself silly as The Bloke and I had to desperately cling on to the chairs and our cameras.

Kinky Boots on Broadway. Absolutely incredible – we’re a huge fan of the film and it was one of the best shows I have ever seen, to the point where I had to try and calm myself down and stop crying as I found myself becoming completely overwhelmed during the final song. Amazing.

The Water Taxi

The Charging Bull

Ahem…

Fearless Girl Statue

Stock Exchange

Ghostbusters Firehouse

Titanic Memorial Lighthouse

Statue of Liberty

Kinky Boots on Broadway

Day Seven

Sephora, just because. I have make-up, but that’s not the point.

Lincoln Center, where we saw totally naked people being made into art works with body paint.

The Juilliard School – when I was training as a violinist it was one of my personal dreams to go here, and I finally did. Ok, maybe not as a student, but I made a point of taking a picture just so I could send it to my mother and say ‘I went to the Juilliard, Mum!’

For the final part, we walked over to W 58th Street 6th Avenue to find the corner crossing from Midnight Cowboy. Dustin Hoffman almost gets hit by a taxi and yells ‘Hey! I’m walking here!’ This was an unscripted scene that happened because the studio couldn’t get permission to close down the street for filming, and so had to film via a hidden camera in a van driving up and down the street. The taxi that almost hit him was a real one that had run a red light, and Hoffman improvised the now iconic line that was kept in the final cut.

Lincoln Center

The Juilliard

Hey! I’m walking here!

What an incredible week… and there’s still so much more that we could have seen!

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