CandiceMarie wrote: ...
@tracieknits your hol sounds brill! No wonder youre excited! How long til you go ?
And i am reeeeeeeeling from the size of NY state..i had no idea! Its somewhere i have always wanted to see..i want to go to brooklyn..and i want to go to new jersey after becoming a sort of horribly fascinated fan of the Real Wives of NJ on tv! Amongst everything else of course..new york shops..broadway etc etcetc!x
I have to say, I'm not a fan of the city! Compared to London, Paris or Edinburgh, the buildings are too tall. There are too many people. Sure, there are some places that are a bit more neighborhoody with buildings that only go to six stories and a more community feel, but that's really not what you see when you visit, and those are, for the most part, pretty expensive areas. I live about 3 hours north of New York City, midway between NYC and Montreal. The countryside around me really looks a lot like England, especially the areas around Bath and Somerset. It's probably why the states to the east are referred to as "New England" The town I live near is our version of Bath - we have hot springs, 19th century bath houses in the Georgian style etc. We also have horse racing and it tries very hard to be posh. And of course if you say you want to visit New Jersey to a New Yorker, that's like saying you'd like to go tour Hell
We have a bit of a superiority complex. I'm not sure it's totally deserved as there are some nice suburbs in New Jersey. It's just NJ has HORRIBLE traffic problems, they have oil refineries which stink, and the view of NJ from NYC is awful. It's so ugly. Brooklyn's become quite gentrified, from what I hear. I haven't been there in probably 25 years, to be honest. The Hamptons on Long Island are nice, but parts of Long Island are tacky and trashy. Full of chavs.
I leave for Paris six weeks from today. We have only a week, which at the time sounded perfect but now I'm starting to think it sounds a little short. Oh well, a short holiday is better than no holiday and it's much kinder to the wallet. This means we were able to get a nicer room in a nicer hotel (we got a view of the Eiffel Tower!) and we'll go to some nicer restaurants. I'd have to economise more if it were a longer vacation.