A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to New York City, United States by TravelPod blogger Simonandflo titled "La Grande Pomme" Simonandflo’s travel blog entry: "Simon: Firstly due to the fact that everyone and their uncle has been to New York and seen the exact same stuff as us, we're not going to describe any of the obvious things in detail. Suffice to say the following things were awesome and exactly how you'd expect them to be... Empire State Building (Tall, Good views(Although not the best, see below)) Grand Central (Big, Blue) Times Square (Bright, Busy) Central Park (Green) Macy's (Big, Busy, Lots of Clothes) Statue of Liberty (Big, Green) If you REALLY wanna know what these things were like, ask and we can tell you. The things that we thought were totally awesome we're gunna talk about in more detail, and the stuff above, we'll just tell you we went there. OK, so..... Flo: After getting into New York late after a 13 hour train journey from Canada, we checked straight into a Hostel. The next morning we meet up with Dan (Simon's brother) and Kate (Dan's girlfriend) in Grand Central, well Simon snuck up on them! It was nice to see people we knew. We checked straight into our hotel, our room as pretty huge - loads of space for me to unpack my backpack which was good :) We walked 10mins down the road and we arrived in Time Square!!! After lunch and a bit of wandering we went up the Empire State, which was cool. The next day was the day to shop!! Well one of ...