Really does deserve naming twice!!

Hi from New York! Have one day left here now and it's been a jam-packed few days since I got here! Arrived on Tuesday afternoon having braved the Chinatown Express and have been staying in the International Student Centre whilst I've been here which really has felt like being back at University. Not surprisingly with and age limit on guests being 35, at 33 I'm probably the oldest one here! At least I look as if I am anyway!
As I said though, it's been a busy few days and I've managed to get to see the places I wanted to but didn't have time to my last visit here. Have been the the Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, mooched round Greenwich village, Soho, Lower Manhattan went to Brooklyn, to the botanical gardens there and walked back across the Brooklyn Bridge, spent time in Central Park - watched softball games there and met an old guy called Kevin and chatted to him for a couple of hours yesterday. I have to say I've walked absolutely miles since I've been here! Fortunately the weather got a little bit cooler (even had one day where I had to reattach the bottom of my zip-off trousers and wear a fleece it was actually cold!) and so it's made doing the touristy things far more pleasant than in Philadelphia. My first day here I almost thought I was back in the UK as having had so much rain here the night before the subway system had major delays or "train traffic" because of signal failure! Nice to see it's not just in London they can't cope with a bit of rain! Fortunately though it was all back up and running to get me home from a free concert I went to In Madison Square Park, a couple of guys called the Woods Brothers - a bluegrass group that were excellent.
Tomorrow I'm going to take it easy as having walked all the way from Lower Manhattan to 86th street today I'm feeling a little tired now and then it's off to Boston on Tuesday. Will have my only greyhound experience then and apparently my hostel in Boston is fabulous so hope to have great things to tell you about it in the next post!