{"id":647,"date":"2005-10-02T20:03:29","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T10:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travellingtruths.wordpress.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2018-05-09T10:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T00:34:32","slug":"new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slingadventures.com\/destinations\/usa\/new-york-city","title":{"rendered":"New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"Get a bus from Boston to New York. Getting buses is difficult enough but when you have two large bags each it becomes very cumbersome! We arrive at the NYC bus depot and haul our gear through the terminal, up stairs grunting and groaning as we go.\r\n\r\nLuckily it is not too far from where we are staying so at 34th & Broadway (how you speak in NYC incidentally) so we are soon out front of what looks like an office building. We head to reception and after getting no attention from the inept reception we make a nuisance of ourselves blocking the walkway with all our bags. Soon enough we are asked to move and hence gain the necessary attention to obtain the keys to our room!\r\n\r\nWe secured a serviced apartment with one bedroom and a sofa bed. We had our friends arriving for a few days of fun in NYC. We catch up before heading down to NoLita (North of Little Italy) near our other 'local' friend Deirdre's hood which we got to know well on our reconnaissance mission earlier in the year. We find a french restaurant which is really tasty and one of the reasons NYC is so cool, you rarely find a bad bar or restaurant and there is so much choice.\r\n\r\nWe continue till late and wander back to our apartment. Jet lag for the others and a few days of little sleep in dorm rooms for us has us pretty exhausted so we get some sleep in the city that never does.\r\n