Positively New Haven

Favourite Parts of New Haven- the essay.

The Food. So many restaurants, food carts, bars, dunkin donuts.

 

 

 

The houses and architecture.

East Rock (and West Rock). Parks at your doorstep with amazing views of the city

Soda in a jamjar.

The Book Barn. The ultimate book lover/cat lover/ coffee lover hangout. Not actually in New Haven but I'll include it anyway. Its just that cool

Markets! All your food, yum sandwichs and good italian-latino food

Just that this sign exists.

The Big City

Think Beyonce did it justice- its pretty much one big amazing concrete jungle of dreams.  Finally I made the trip to New York- having spent the last 5 weekends meaning to but never quite getting there. Its only a 2hr train trip from New Haven so no excuses really, but glad I saved it for its 30th of Dec madness- the place was completely alive.

Spent a day wandering, seeing where my feet could take me (generally away from the masses of tourists who were here pre-new years). Very fun night out with Rach and friends experiencing what life is like as an under-ager again (I was branded before entering the bar, with  crosses over my hands and wrists just to let everyone know i was still a child). As everyone keeps on reminding me- as a 20 year old I could fight for my country here, but not go home to have a beer afterwards. Crazy.

Got to recover and relax at the wonderful casa de Turkel's, who can totally claim they are Bill Clinton's neighbours (neighbours being a wide geographic distribution). We made awesome brownie, before Rachel and me embarked on the journey back to New Haven where we spent New Years.

There is a huge line of photos sorry, because I can not for the life of me work out how the formatting works for this blog.

Christmas in Framingham (with a touch of Boston)

Christmas preparations American style. mmmm.

 And BOOM its 2012! Holy potatoes time flies. So a bit of an update from the last few weeks in which I have been suspiciously quiet. No, I haven't quite gone underground- more just have been taking a rest from technology and enjoying this Dunkin-Donut filled, coffee worshipping, strange sport playing,  wonderful country

I was lucky enough to get to spend the Christmas with Becky's family in Framingham, outside of Boston. Awesome to spend time with some Brits, some Americans and the me being the token Kiwi. Ian joined us on Christmas Day, and managed to convert us all into poker players. Great game- although not so great for my dwindling supply of chocolate chips. Though that is potentially due to my munching of tokens more than anything else

Keeping busy we went into Boston one day- AWESOME city ( admit it New Yorkers! I'll write up about you soon), at least from what I saw in the 4 freezing hours we spent there wandering. A mix of new and old buildings, with lots of food shops and a big open park in the middle.Finally felt winter cold, although no snow yet. Damn global warming.

Quincy Markets

All wrapped up for Christmas

Most entertaining of all- Boxing day we went to watch Mission Impossible on an Imax theater... in a furniture store. And this wasnt just a normal Imax- all the seats had so called "Butt kickers" in them to give you kick everytime an explosion occured. So having watched Tom Cruise manage to avoid capture by driving a car off a cliff, we then proceeded to walk out, with sore butts,  through rooms and rooms of couches for sale. hahaha one of those only in America moments...