Welcome to New York!
Anyone interested in visiting the US? If you are, or you're just curious, this June I travelled to a few hot spots in the US; New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. Each day, I documented this journey, taking photos and writing in my travel journal at the end of each day. I was in the USA for 22 days, so if you too are interested in touring the US, or even visiting one of these great cities, I will be posting about each of my days in the US. I will include landmarks, top attractions, best places to eat or chill, and what was my favourite thing about each place. If you're interested feel free to subscribe to my blog, all my future posts will be 100% USA. If you want to see all my photos from the trip, I will be posting them on my Instagram, which you can follow here: https://www.instagram.com/lazy_sunday_girl/. Now for day 1 in the USA...
So the flight to JFK departed at 1:10pm UK time. It was an 8 hour flight from London Heathrow, where we enjoyed 2 meals and a continuous flow of snacks (plus free alcohol which I didn't mind at all!). We flew with British Airways and they couldn't have been more helpful. I was content watching 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile', with my Pinot Grigio, time just flew by. 9pm UK time we landed at JFK. Having woken up at 5am that day (due to flying from Glasgow to London) we were all shattered, especially since we didn't sleep on the plane, as there was way too much to do. NY was also 5 hours behind the UK, so it was 4pm to us now.
The travelling from JFK to Brooklyn was a bit of a disaster, but that was because taxis were so expensive (as it was around a 40 minute drive). This led to us venturing straight into NY public transport, with huge bags, containing 3 weeks worth of clothes and other supplies. We took the air train to the subway, but stayed on for too long, so we just decided to walk the remaining 8 blocks. Again, this wasn't easy with all the bags, backpacks, and being awake for what was now the 20th hour. The whole experience however did let us see a lot of New York before we got to the hotel.
The hotel we stayed at in Brooklyn was called the Brooklyn Way Hotel, on 4th Avenue. The location was great, it was right next to a subway, and a small grocers. Heading into the grocers, we immediately saw many differences between the US and the UK. First of all, there was so much organic fruit and veg, instead of packaged up fruit and veg, it looked more like a farmers market. They also had bottled Kombucha, which I saw and immediately knew I had to try (and keep the bottle because I loved the packaging so much).
The simple grocery shop was perfect for health and fitness, as it was loaded with different nuts and seeds, and finally something I cannot find anywhere in the UK, Hazelnut Butter. After our mini shop, where the receipt pretty much read 'Chips, dip, Kombucha and beer', we headed back to the hotel, staying awake as long as possible, so to wake up in the right time zone, before heading off to sleep.
Lazy Sunday Girl 💜x
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