Mein Hotelzimmer war, naja sagen wir, bescheiden. Aber ich hatte weder vor, darin viel Zeit zu verbringen, noch kann man fuer 50 Euronen die Nacht viel erwarten. Immerhon war es sauber, es gab jeden Tag frische Handtuecher und ich hatte Fernsehen. Abends ganz praktisch, wenn das Paerchen im Nachbarzimmer sich dem Matratzensport hingab, hielt ich American Idols against it and singing along. So you can all uebertoenen. Otherwise, I have earplugs and sleeping pills can sleep well.
Tuesday morning I woke up excited and threw myself at once in my Abenteuer.PB (bread with Peanutbutter) I had lots of it, coffee gabs in the hotel, the error got him to drink but I made only once and held me then strictly to Starbucks and their ilk. Greeks in NY also make good coffee, Italian auch.Sonst keiner.Schrecklich.
give it a real plan for the day I had not, but I'm gone and am first on the Upper West Side on 7th Avenue down run, and a half hours and I am determined at some point in the Village ended up on Christopher Street Park (the minininini is small but beautiful) I've been drinking a cup of coffee, people watching and wrote a little text. I am a bit tapped around disoriented, have little nice boutiques looked and then went to the Metra very top of Manhattan. It was pretty cold and gray that day, but I'm still with the ferry to Staten Iceland and back and got me some fresh wind around the nose. For it was in track. I I just can not imagine how it smells in the summer in NY, but now I have found it extremely disgusting.
Someone once said: NY hates or loves you, there is nothing in between. I agree.
I still vacillate. There were moments when I hated the smell, as people crowded da leben, hab den Himmel vermisst, die Weite.
Und es bricht einem das Herz zu sehen, wie ungleich der Reichtum dieser Stadt, eigentlich dieses Landes verteilt ist. So fertige Leute sieht man in Deutschland nicht so oft, vor allem nicht in Stuttgart. Extremer Reichtum und extreme Armut. Dazwischen stehen die Touristen und machen eigentlich nur Bilder von der bunten Leuchtreklame, vom huebschen Park und den netten Cafes, von der Lady Liberty. Und rennen den Schnaeppchen hinterher. Shopping ist die Freizeitbeschaeftigung nummer eins in den USA.
Shopping!
Und es gab Momente, wo ich die Stadt echt geliebt hab.
Nachts, wenn man ueber den TimesSquare und die Fifth Avenue schlendert. Wenn die Ubahn voller Nachtschwaermer ist und if the Seller is a clock at night at the drugstore is friendly even when one buys something to drink.
Or if you go when the sun shines through the central park and half-NY absorbs the sun and the good mood. Or if you have the best carrot muffin in the world with Kasekuchenfuellung, sitting in sunshine on the ferry and swing through the port can be. Then you love NY.
And then I read rest tomorrow, I am now totally tired!
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