Just back from New York. Had expected to be able to update my blog on a daily basis through using internet cafes.
Not so. In New York everyone is WI-Fi and they carry their own personal gadgets ( cell phone, laptops etc) for accessing the internet.
Madison Square Gardens had huge banners advertising that it was Wi-Fi
My budget hotel, the very funky Gershwin just off 5th AVenue had 2 computers with internet access and I used that to update my online book (www.craig-y-nos.blogspot.com). This was situated in a corridor and in much demand by other users; it was also unreliable, gobbling up dollar notes as if there was no tomorrow. Found my room was above one containing at least 10 big Afro-American musicians and thought I wa in for a rowdy night…until I smelt the marijuana wafting up then all became peace and quiet. Walked into a transvestite party in the hotel one night and felt …er…uncool.
And the art? mind-blowing. MOMA is worth seeing for the building alone and the Met. well you could spend days there and not see everything. Too much to see and too much to do.
