Defiantly the best day today - with the best entertainment, the best shops, the best food and the researched and coverage of New York done. We started the day in Canal Street - hello fakes. For you to understand what it is like you walk past Chinese people who say 'Louis, Louis' 'Chanel, Chanel' if you say yes they say 'follow' you then follow them around some back streets where a load of peoples cars are lined up, its in the car - they open the door and the person gets in with you and then whole back is filled with fakes a little light and a seat - you chose your item - barter - pay and then out!!! A little scary - but i got an amazing Louis Vuitton purse which i bartered down to $15 so i was happy :)
After are fakes and dodgeness ended we headed up to Soho - the complete opposite of Canal Street yet they are so close, Topshop and Vintage shops here we come. The Topshop was really similar to the one in England - it was strange thinking we were in New York, As you can expect the vintage shops held some incredible items including a tissue box made out of wood which looks like a pile of books. Inventive!!!
After a very busy morning and early afternoon of research it was sight seeing which needed to be done except on a sadder note it was down to the world trade center - very mundane and there was a weird ora of silence
To lighten our mood a little we walked to Staten Island - well to the edge of the coast to see the Statue of Liberty - it was beautiful as the sun was beginning to set over the water with the center in the background and the Statue of Liberty view - beautiful, what was even better was that it was a beautiful day of blue skies, sun but bitterly cold - perfect.
We then headed up the subway to Chelsea and the Meat Packing District where we had first cuppa of the day and a warm up session to recharge our batteries before heading to Carlos Miele, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, DVF and many more. To sum up these incredible shops the layout, set up, interiors - you can tell they are high market shops ; it definitely gave you a feeling of a different world. I felt like Julia Roberts in Pretty Women when i walked into the shops- they stared and judged me :( a good example was when i walked into Versace a women before me walked in and the door was opened for her by the doorman - i walked up and i had to open the door myself - despicable :(
After a very long day - instead of a walk it was a taxi back to the hotel to get changed and get ready for out last night in New York in Little Italy for a pleasant last meal. It was a perfect end to a perfect day which was much fulfilled and that pasta dish i had was much appreciated by my tummy :)
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