Flights were cheap, I still had some days left, so I booked my ticket to New York.
The about 5 people I asked if I could stay on their couch were traveling themselves, had no time or wanted me to work for them.. But then Raksha offered me to stay with her.
Home ended up being quite central, so I walked to Times Square the first day.
I wanted to try to get to the lighting of the christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, but all the roads were closed (yes, for pedestrians) so even though I would only have had to turn right, it seemed unreachable and I then had to go back home for Raclette!
After some more walking around Manhattan, shopping, seeing the Highline park and Chelsea Market, I moved to Staten Island on Friday after american chinese lunch. We went to see the big NYC Winter Latern Festival and then back to the house of some friends, for some beer and later Mexican food. Frankie’s brother then took us home.
And Saturday was the highlight of the trip: THE big Christmas Pub Crawl 🙂
It started at 12 with brunch in Brooklyn, where I also got a fancy christmas light necklace and a santa claus hat. There was a list of 12 bars and 30 minutes time at each to get and finish a drink. In addition to that, each bar had a special rule like only using one’s left hand to drink, no talking at all, taking a selfie with a stranger or only singing instead of talking.
