Day 6

"Too drunk, I can;t type. Love you all."

That's what I wrote last night when I got home. Today I'm suffering again. Chatting to bar staff causes the urge not to leave the bar, especially when a barman from another bar turns up on his break and tells you his bar is just around the corner.

Yesterday was Tuesday and I made a proper plan with written instructions. I pretty much followed it although it took longer than expected because I struggled to find some places. I got the subway down to Astor Pl and headed east for some food at Life Cafe, a nice place with some good veggie options. I had a veggie chili thing with cheese on top. I then headed west and accidentally went too far south into Chinatown which is 100 times more of a Chinatown than our one street in London. I then spent the next hour trying to find the Ghostbusters exterior location off Varick Street. It's mainly that I've written down bad explanations of where places are, I need to improve at that. I then headed south towards the financial district kind of area. WTC was kind of weird... it's basically a massive building site. I'd have thought almost ten years on it would be more than that. They have a big transport hub and some PATH trains, that made me laugh because tourists are so going to think that the big sign saying "PATH" is just directing them to a walking area.... that's what I thought anyway. I headed south and walked through a couple of parks including Battery Park. I then stumbled across the American Indian museum which was the exterior location for Vigo's pad in Ghostbusters 2. Then I jumped on the free Staten Island ferry which is something I'd recommend to any tourist, it's free and it's about an hour for a round trip. It was quite dark when I made the return trip and Manhattan looked rather beautiful. Even the giant industrial cranes over the other side of the harbour looked picturesque in the sunset.

That was my day of tourism stuff. After that I headed up to Bleecker St and grabbed a pizza. Too expensive but very filling. I walked up and down a couple of times and found a bar with live music. It was a girl and her guitar so I stepped in and sat down. She had a beautiful voice and it turned out she was half way through a 50 state road trip so I was very impressed if this is what she was like when she was tired. After she finished it was about 10pm so I thought I should head back up to the apartment. I couldn't help myself and went to the Scottish bar, I'm going to call it Bairns because that's in the name of it. Collette was working so it was a new person to get to know. I chatted with her and some strangers, I'm getting better at that. I chatted to a barman dude called Kevin for two minutes and he bought me a drink, very clever because when I left Bairns I thought I'd check out the place that he worked at. It wasn't as fun as Bairns but he told me all about his life and stuff. Bar staff are cool.

I'm not sure what I'm doing today. I don't feel so great.... I will eat some carrots.