Jamie Oliver's Blog » New York http://blog.alpha-lite.co.uk Jamie Oliver's corner of the web Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:07:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 New York http://blog.alpha-lite.co.uk/general/new-york/ http://blog.alpha-lite.co.uk/general/new-york/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:48:17 +0000 Jamie Oliver http://alpha-lite.co.uk/?p=186 I am back from my trip to New York, and wow, it was fantastic. The whole atmosphere was incredible, nothing I have really experienced before (to be fair, I haven’t really been abroad much, apart from France). The flights, my god. I have never been on a long haul flight before (see above), and it was boring. Especially the fact we had to have a connecting flight too, so we went from Manchester to Gatwick, then Gatwick to JFK New York. 9 hours of flights, not including the hours sitting around doing nothing waiting to get on the damn things. I only had one hour sleep (if that) in the 24 hours on the way back, I was absolutely knackered.

We went for 5 days, but we pretty much saw everything you could see. We sent to all the traditional tourist ‘attractions’/locations, such as the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Times Square, all the museums, etc. Speaking of Times Square, it is crazy – especially on valentines day (which I had the misfortune of being on the other side of the world to my girlfriend). It was chaotic, you couldn’t move for people, it was actually like hell on earth. Other than that, it was a great place, it really was an example that the city ‘never sleeps’. We also went to Central Park, which I thought was a beautiful place (as beautiful as you can get in the middle of Febuary, with leafless trees). It was actually surprisingly quiet, even when it was so close to the hustle and bustle of the nearby streets.

And on the note of museums too, we went to the Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art, and my god was it the biggest load of bollocks I have ever experienced. What has art become nowadays anyway? How exactly can you class a blank canvas as art? They seem to get away with anything nowadays, and people actually enjoy it? I’m not a hater of art, I love art – art that people have actually put effort and time into, not just thrown a few things together and sold it to a gallery for the money. The museums in New York are actually quite odd, they seem more ‘all over the place’ so to speak, I found them hard to find things. I can’t quite explain it, but anyway… We went to the NY Natural History Museum which was rather impressive, especially the planetarium they have there.

Anyway, I will add some photos here tomorrow, they show the trip better than I could describe.

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