Old Town, New Town and the Jewish District. Everything is very old here... even New Town was founded in 1348. Free walking tour with Colin the Scotsman, definitely worth it.

And then walking around under the castle looking for Lennon Wall.

Wandering around the castle...

We made it to Prague!

The Czech Inn... get it...

We had Mexican for dinner... authentic, right? Mmm gotta love steaky steak.

Some Budapest sights...

Not the most tourist friendly place, though it was absolutely amazing, I fell in love with the buildings. It has such a dark history. We went to some baths, which was a thoroughly European experience. I was short changed 10000 forint, though used by primitive hungarian linguistic skills to get it back... Success.

We arrived in Budapest on the 23rd and were very happy to be in a completely foreign country. The taxi to the hostel was very cheap and a welcome change from the cab's in London; the great fund funnel.

Home Made Hostel was so sweet and was far, far above my expectations had been for the hostel way of travel.

Excuse the lack of posts while in London. Wifi was a hard thing to come by for less than ten pounds. London was great. The streets are so picturesque.

In terms of accommodation we had some absolute shockers. Including a pull out bed that deconstructed itself in the middle of the night... whilst I was on it. I stuck to the sofa after that.

Sight seeing was aplenty what with buckingham palace, westminster abbey, big ben, marble arch, tower bridge, tower of london and all the beautiful parks.

Shopping on regent and oxford street, at harrods and harvey nichols was great and I managed to exert some level of restraint... thankfully for the budget.

We had a few nights out with new found friends. Some decidedly bigger than others.

I'll put up a back log of photos soon enough. Though for now, I am going to explore Budapest.

Georgia and I went for a walk around the city to say good bye. We went to Magnolia Bakery and got the Red Velvet. Then we slowly made our way to NoHo and I have come to the decision that I will hence forth be in charge of navigation.

I just booked accommodation for London. $$$ farewell.

Today Georgia and I went to Chelsea Market for a cup of soup. We then battled the heat and wind down to SoHo for a spot of shopping. Finally we battled our way through the pelting rain back to Chelsea... We're having a great range of weather here in NYC.

The evidence...

I changed rooms into a little loft above the kitchen. Feels like home.

Photo credit to G for 1,4,5

Georgia and I met up today at 14th and 8th and headed down to the Met on 5th Avenue. We had some truly terrible coffee and sandwiches before we got there...

My favourites in the museum were Ancient Egypt and, European decorative art and sculptures.

I like how even in 1820 people did graffiti... Leonardo was here.

We went back and hung out at my place for a while before dinner at Red Bamboo, which was delicious. Vegetarian chicken teriyaki for me and vegetarian chicken parmesan for G. We both shared the sweet potato fries and a slice of oreo cheesecake.

We walked back up Bleeker St and Georgia spotted three sure-to-be-blind-after-I-caught-them-with-my-flash mice. I thought they were cute.

Five days in paradise, a.k.a Harbour Island, The Bahamas. The plane from Miami was less than my arms width wide, which was a bit of a shock. Everything on Harbour Island is extremely picturesque, from the crystal blue sea and sand with hints of pink coral, to the candy coloured houses surrounded by an abundance of palm trees.

We stayed at India Hicks' guest house at Hibiscus Hill which was beautiful and right by the beach.

We rented a boat and went out to Man Island which is... an unmanned island. The water is about knee deep for the most part where it gradually drops off with ample snorkeling opportunities.

It wasn't until we were in the shallow zone that we realised the area we had just swim through was circling with sharks... We accidentally placed ourselves in the middle of a nursery though luckily the sharks were still small enough to be not too curious. They were about 2-3 foot Caribbean Reef Sharks.

I met the cutest little guy, Sampson. He took this photo himself. He had his shirt tied around his head "like Tupac" he said.

We ate out every day and my favourite was definitely the Banana and Ricotta Hotcakes from The Landing.

The trip home was quite a nightmare. I was stuck in Miami for eight and a half hours, finally getting back to the NYC townhouse at five a.m at which point I fell asleep on the edge of my bed fully clothed.