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10-13 August New York to London - the end draws near

10 August

Today I felt that I should take some time out from my hard routine to catch up with you all. So after getting up at the crack of noon, I ran to the nearest net cafe & wrote emails. To rest up from this I sat in the sun in Central Park & read my book, wrote a few postcards, that sort of stuff. That and confirmed just how small the world is. I was chatting to a couple of Aussies at the hostel who knew a couple of friends of mine from varsity who were now working in London. Gotta go a long way to get away from that type of stuff these days. (more…)

8-9 August New York - yet more museums and galleries

8 August

A couple more museums today, the least impressive of which was the Gutenberg. It is a pity that they don’t pay as much attention to how they display their Monet’s as they do to the design of the building. A fantastic building with lots of paintings stuck to the wall is about the best you can say about it.

Later I found myself walking past Bloomingdales & felt that I should wander in. Shortly after entering I got the feeling that I could not afford anything in the store. But it does appear that torn jeans are back in fashion. For USD80 a pair you too could have some. Now instead of looking like a bum with no money & old jeans it seems I could be mistaken for someone who feels it is important to keep at the cutting edge of fashion no matter how stupid and overpriced it is. Oh well, I am sure they will go back out of fashion again. They probably are already. (more…)

6-7 August New York - those buildings really are tall

6 August

As my backpackers was under a block from Central Park, I decided to go downtown by the scenic route through the park. It was a very nice walk, watching all of the diligent locals running, jogging, biking and roller blading through the park on a sunny Sunday morning. It is a pity there were no coffee stands, I could have sat and watched them for hours.

Most interesting was the horses though. There were several people riding their horses through the park. In a city where it costs hundreds of dollars a week to get a car park, I would have thought that keeping a horse would be impossible. But neigh, people do. (more…)

3-5 August GP to New York - a muggers dream

3 August.

Today was raining. Damn, that meant I couldn’t paint that fence. Don’t you just hate that? So today we bummed around some, like being on holiday really. I did decide to go forth and do battle with the evil money machine. Armed with a pen and paper to report it’s misdeeds to higher authority, and ensuring that it was aware of all of the unpleasant things I would do to it if it did not co-operate I stepped forth. And it gave me money in a suitably chastised manner. Who says that threatening a machine doesn’t work? (more…)

31 July- 2 August Edmonton & Grande Prairie - the biggest job list in the world

31 July

Deciding that it would be good to catch back up with Shari & some of Brendas other friends, a day at the mall was arranged. The mall was West Edmonton Mall, which is so named as it covers most of West Edmonton. Or if not most, a lot of it. It proudly proclaims that it is the biggest shopping mall in the world & is complete with such facilities more women’s clothes stores than you can shake a credit card at, almost. as many souvenir shops, a wave pool, a rollercoaster and an ice skating rink. Now I can understand the reasons for all but the last. They tell me it gets a little nippy up this way in winter, so they have shopping malls so you can buy stuff without dying of hypothermia. But I still can’t quite see the reason for going to a lot of effort to have an ice skating rink inside when they happen by themselves outside. (more…)