Saturday 6 June 2015

06/06/15: US Photo Diary, New York, New York

As promised, here are a handful of the hundreds of photographs that I took during the three days(!) that we were in New York on my trip to the US a couple of months ago. Following an enormous breakfast burrito & the inevitable buying of 'VIRGINIA' t-shirts big enough to sleep in, we said our goodbyes to my brother & his wife & were headed back to Washington in a rental car, Louis C.K. stand-up on my headphones. From D.C we flew to Colorado for another twelve days - we were up early, skiing from eight until four, reading in the bath until seven & finding some decent vegetarian food for the rest of the day. While Vail has its own undoubtable beauty that you can see here, I've got to admit that I was already looking ahead to New York, one of my favourite cities, & the two days that me & my kid sister would have on our own there. 
We stopped off at Top of the Rock & wandered around a sunny Central Park with my Dad for our last day together. On the first of those two days solo Sofia & I walked a 20 mile round trip to Williamsburg from our Manhattan hotel, over the bridge, down Bedford Avenue & back across the river for pizza in the East Village & a sunburnt & blistered 30 blocks back. The second was spent taking it easy, making the trip to Strand Books, a handful of vintage shops & a final Five Guys before grudgingly getting our coach to the airport home. Thanks for everything, NYC & see you again soon. 













- O.

Wednesday 3 June 2015

03/06/15: US Photo Diary, Washington D.C & Virginia

Hi & welcome to the first of a few photo diaries from my what-feels-like-forever-ago trip to the States. We begin in an eye-wateringly cold Washington D.C in which blossom season is still a long way off but during which we kept warm snooping around the aviation museum, in search of Shake Shack, thrifting around Georgetown University & eating pizza with my kid sister once my Dad's fallen asleep in our hotel room. It was then onward on an Amtrak train to a balmy Virginia to catch up with my big brother, his new wife & two labradors. We spent our three sunny days there exploring in the woods, eating some pretty decent vegan food (hello tofu scramble at the Bluegrass Grill, mmhmm), walking around downtown Charlottesville & it's many secondhand bookstores (university towns ftw!) & driving up to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Oh & I've skipped out on a recounting of the afternoon spent sobbing in Terminal 3, three hours in a customs queue & two hours sleep in a Long Island hotel before all of this occurred. You're welcome.















Next stop New York! 
- O.