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United Kingdom, London, English, German,
Male, 21-25, Travel, Writing.
Travel blog of a year-long round the world trip.
Currently in London, UK.
(the first leg of my trip in a nutshell -- route as originally planned).
Requiem for New York [07/10/03]
My last two somewhat interesting pictures from New York.
A Picasso-inspired mural in Harlem and one of the unrefurbished (and asbestos ridden) buildings on Ellis Island - the place where millions of immigrants to the US were 'screened' for unsavoury characters until around the 1950s. There's a lot of atmosphere in that place, although it would be much more interesting had they left most of it in the state of the dilapidated building (minus the asbestos). Now there's a pretty good museum on site but it's a bit too shiny and polished for my liking... They should have made a haunted house ride out of it, but that's just my opinion.
In other news I have now left New York and am in Berkeley, around San Francisco, which are also two lovely places.
All my digital (i.e. fairly crappy) pictures from New York can be viewed at snapfish.com over the following link: All NYC pictures. I think you need to sign up (free) to be able to view them, but they're a pretty good service anyway (they let you upload unlimited digital pictures online and then later print or do other stuff with them).
This will be all for now except for my final thought: Everyone pray for California, as the day of Recall is upon us today. We must all resist the Rise of the Machine-Gubornator 3, starring Arnie (which is, btw, a dreadful, dreadful movie).
I'll be back (enough puns now) with more blogs soon, bar the end of the world
A Picasso-inspired mural in Harlem and one of the unrefurbished (and asbestos ridden) buildings on Ellis Island - the place where millions of immigrants to the US were 'screened' for unsavoury characters until around the 1950s. There's a lot of atmosphere in that place, although it would be much more interesting had they left most of it in the state of the dilapidated building (minus the asbestos). Now there's a pretty good museum on site but it's a bit too shiny and polished for my liking... They should have made a haunted house ride out of it, but that's just my opinion.
In other news I have now left New York and am in Berkeley, around San Francisco, which are also two lovely places.
All my digital (i.e. fairly crappy) pictures from New York can be viewed at snapfish.com over the following link: All NYC pictures. I think you need to sign up (free) to be able to view them, but they're a pretty good service anyway (they let you upload unlimited digital pictures online and then later print or do other stuff with them).
This will be all for now except for my final thought: Everyone pray for California, as the day of Recall is upon us today. We must all resist the Rise of the Machine-Gubornator 3, starring Arnie (which is, btw, a dreadful, dreadful movie).
I'll be back (enough puns now) with more blogs soon, bar the end of the world
