BOSTON & NEW YORK

I'm back ! :D

As many of you know I spent all summer in United States or if you here somehow by accident - I was living in America for almost 4 months. I took part in a program called Camp America which is one of a possibilities to work and travel around USA. So basically I was working on a summer camp for 2 and a half months and then I had a month to travel before my visa was over. I'm not going to write a lot about working and Camp America participation, I was thinking about creating separate post about it, let me know if you want to read about it. I thinks its a great opportunity to explore United States so I will encourage everyone who is a student to take part in it. Its a great adventure!

So after I finished my work on a camp and as soon we took off in New York we stared our crazy "both costs" journey full of surprises and really messed up situations but it was definitely worth it. Photos I'm posting today are from Boston and New York. Its the first part of East Cost journey, we pretty much visited all of the important places and I took over 900 photos, so be patient! 

My camp was between Boston and New York, 2 hours driving to both so we took a trip to Boston while being on a camp, it was my first biggest city so I was very impressed how all these skyscrapers are looking when you see it live, and maybe because Boston is the oldest city in the United States it was a history lesson, undeniably good beginning. First we went to Cambridge where the Harvard University is placed. It is the most prestigious university in the world, on the list of people who were studying there we can see a few polish surnames such as Czesław Miłosz and Agata Passent but its definitely about Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and others big names of America. It was good but I still prefer my Academy :)

First view of Boston is impressive, isn't it? 

 Around Boston there is a red trial leading you to the most important monuments, building and places it is about 12 miles so of course we didn't do it all but we tried to see all the historical parts of the city such as this cemetery when you can see the graves of people who were creating constitution of United States. The one in the middle is Benjamin Franklin's parents grave.

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Boston has one of the best Chinatown, the gate is very impressive, I loved it !

And the last part of our trip is Bunker Hill Monument similary the oldest monument in USA.

A lot of cities have the same type of monument, you could see one in Washington DC for example.

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CAMP IS OVER, WELCOME TO NEW YORK - THE BEST CITY IN THE PLANET.

Seriously. New York was my biggest dream, like the biggest of the biggest, but I couldn't even expect how great this city is and now I'm dreaming only about an apartment in Manhattan (YES I'M GONNA MAKE IT) Well, just take a look on the photos I took, It says everything !

I had this pleasure to spent all together about 7 days in New York (at the beginning of my trip and at the end because our flight back was from JFK).

Of course the first place we went to was Time Square. It is amazing to be there no matter if its day or night there is a lot of people and it just looks so amazing! You can meet a lot of dressed up people doing impressions of many characters from tv or just being a Statue of Liberty.

In New York we were moving by subway. It's the best way to quickly change place. The city is so big that sightseeing only Manhattan took us 3 days!

At night this place is even better!

Flatiron Building:

Chrysler Building:

I was so excited about seeing Gran Central Station I think because of Gossip Girl but anyway this place is as majestic as it appears to be!! 

As we couldn't say anything wrong about the weather in NYC (it is usually very hot and humid) as soon we reached Brooklyn Bridge it started raining.

I love this view:

After the bridge we took a walk in lower Manhattan, visiting 9/11 Memorial.

Big well surrounded by big buildings and the new World Trade Center.

I got so emotional in this place, the foggy weather make it even more.. I can't use worlds to describe it, you just felt that something frightening happend there. 

Definitely one of the places which made a big impression on me.

World Trade Center:

Next day we took a ropeway to Rosevelt Island (yep - this one Kayne West had his Yezzy fashion show on) It is one of the options to see the aerial view of Manhattan.

East River and Upper East Side

And here we are: Central Park, basically the only green area on Manhattan. Looks exactly like in movies! And little sailing boats are real, you can rent one.. WOW *.*

(that wasn't me, that was my inside baby)

Alice in Wonderland Statue:

Rockefeller center. During the winter this is the place where the big Christmas Tree stands.

Omg how much I wish to be in New York in winter, you don't even know :)

View on Williamsburg Bridge from Brooklyn Brigde.

We did Brooklyn Bridge again but in a different way, we walk through it from the Brooklyn side and the weather this time was just perfect.

Headphones? I don't know why, but if you know let me know ! :D

You can see how the weather in New York can change in one minute, we took a ferry to Staten Island to see the Statue of Liberty and again as soon as we got on the board it started heavily rain :(

 Statue by itself. It's beautiful but smaller then everybody expects !

Lower Manhattan view.

And our host Lubomir:

As you can see New York is amazing, my favorite city in all United States and I was in a lot of them. No comparable, one in a kind. I expected it to be little bit more crowded but it's even better that it wasn't,. Everything about Big Apple is amazing. 

New York

Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh

There's nothing you can’t do

Now you’re in New York

These streets will make you feel brand new

Big lights will inspire you

Let's hear it for New York

The end of part 1.

Let me know what do you think about it.

Kisses Mary