Where on earth..?

Heat wave baking New York

We're melting here! The temperature has been steadily around 29-35C the last few days. No worries though, we've been enjoying the day heat in the shade of central park =) Today I'm going to challenge the weather and take a walk around the village with Carina and perhaps have my morning coffee in Borders on 57th street before going there.

I've been having a great time in NY although I've been taking far less pictures than normal. The reason is as you can imagine that I already have shiploads of pictures of NY from our previous visits. This time I've been taking pictures of the people and trying to capture at least some feelings of the life in the city rather than shooting the dead cold buildings all over again. Now, the problem is that I haven't had time to upload any new pictures and the good internet places are scarse on the upper west side. This internet machine in our YMCA is good to a point but you just can't install any programs into the computer (or launch your own software if you manage to install one). If only I had my laptop with me there would be no problems with the internet as most of the cafe's have wireless and many of the places offer it for free.

For me this is the last week of my journey and I've been deliberatly slowing down the phase. I'm not going to run into every direction anymore and I have been trying to make some plans for my first days in Helsinki. Well, the first days will be washing clothes, cleaning up the flat after the couple who stayed there. There are so many things to do in the first few days. The fact that I have to be at the office the next day doesn't help a bit. After the first few action packed days I'm going to enjoy myself by going to the beach and just relax while trying to adjust to the normal rythm of life.

Now I think it is time for me to get my morning coffee..

posted by Raine @ 7:41 PM