Days 6/7 - goodbye Boston, hello New York/Greyhound

We spent our last full day in Boston enjoying the sun and visiting a couple of places we hadn't seen. This included bunker hill, which is a park with a monument around 300 steps hi (I know because we climbed every one of them...). The view is pretty impressive at the top, but my profuse sweating and breathing like a fat kid chasing after an ice cream van was less than appealing...

We spent the rest of the evening in 'Little Italy', where we ate obscene amounts of Italian food. Having been unable to attend drinks with a few others at the hostel as planned, we called it a night in preparation for the trip to New York in the morning.

Although it is sad to be leaving Boston, I think a week has been enough to see the sights and also meet a bunch of new people. What's nice about the city is that everyone is friendly and chatty, and we've already met people who we'll meet up with on future legs of the trip, which is cool. 

So onwards to New York, and I admit this is the place I've been most looking forward to for this whole trip. There's so much I'm excited about seeing, and we also have a trip to Niagara Falls planned too, so I think we've played it right by planning to stay eight nights. 

However, one thing stood in our way from Boston to NY... The Greyhound.

I know the Greyhound bus has a bad reputation - and some of the Internet testimonials are horrifying - but the journey was actually great. Big leather seats, free wifi, and no crazies on board , which was a bonus.

Having found our hostel, we took to exploring the upper west side of manhattan, stopping to get pizza and fro yo, until we realised we had strayed into Harlem, and decided it was a good idea to turn around...

This evening we went to a few local bars with a group from the hostel, whose names I've almost entirely forgotten. We were treated to a plethora of questions about British reality tv ( notable favourites here include Britain's Got Talent, X Factor and The Voice) and a 'one dollar beer' that nobody knew the name of... However overall the evening was a success, and I think we made a fairly positive impact, to the end that tonight's event has been renamed to the British term 'pre-lash'... I'm not sure how I feel about bringing this to the States, but it's probably an indication of endearment that they've taken it on board...