Day 39 Boston-New York, USA

I drove into New York while Simon navigated and it wasn’t as bad as I imagined although having said that it is Sunday and we are about 3 miles from downtown. Parking though was another matter as on certain days they sweep the roads so we had to keep driving around before we eventually found somewhere. Finding a needle in a haystack springs to mind and would be easier. The hostel we had booked into ‘Jazz on the Park’ had good reviews so we were hoping it would be nice but how wrong we were. The staff were not very helpful and to make matters worse they put us in a 12 bed room the size of a rabbit hutch until we complained and told them we had booked a 4 bed room. Still at least we were in New York and once we were sorted and changed we headed downtown. My first experience of New York was the subway, it makes London Underground look like a palace and so hi-tech. It wasn’t the nicest of experiences but upon getting downtown we headed to Times Square. The lights and tall buildings are the first thing that hit you and I stood open mouthed for awhile trying to take everything in. Its so hard explaining whats its really like unless you’ve seen it for yourself before, and then the amount of people for a Sunday night was unbelievable. Eventually I started coming to terms with where I really was and the size of it and we managed to relax in a bar before heading back to the hostel.