NYC - Day 0

Hello.

I'm tired. We've arrived at our SHITTY hotel (yes, very crap hotel, nothing like it was described on the website, but oh well). It's currently 21:35 local time, but that's like 02:35 UK time, so we're both tired and cranky!

Come to think of it, we woke up this morning at 8am, and traveled as follows (all times below are British Summer Time):

10:00 am - walked to train station
10:42 am - train from Ipswich to London Liverpool Street
12:00 pm - Underground from London Liverpool Street to Paddington
12:33 pm - Heathrow Express from Paddington to Terminal 3, Heathrow
16:00 pm - Virgin Atlantic Flight VS001 to Newark, New York
23:00 pm - Arrived at Newark
00:40 am - Squeezed in to a "Super Shuttle" that took us and 6 other people to various locations around New York. It's a good shared-taxi kind of service, but kinda sucks being squeezed in after spending 7 hours on a plane.
01:40 am - got to hotel (Astor On The Park - AVOID AT ALL COSTS!). Didn't manage to figure out how to open the room door, so Fatime on reception called Enrique to come and sort us out.

So, in that one hour car trip, we saw amazing sites! The city is just a landscape of lights, and colours, and lots of yellow cabs! I think we went past Times Square, which looks AMAZING.

Right, off to sleep now and tomorrow we gotta work out how to attack this mad house :)

SoB out

EDIT: Forgot to say, but the crappy hotel offers a 10$ per 24 hours WiFi service. Luckily for me though, there's an insecure network that I've managed to latch on to :) So, for now, I'm online on somebody else's internet for free. I've also managed to work out the router password for this connection, I'm wondering whether I should change it so that no one can check the logs. But, saying that, if someone were to try and log in to the router and fail cos their password isn't correct, they would definitely be suspicious that something has happened.

Hence, I'm leaving it as it is. For now :p