We have a lease on our present apartment til December 1st, the plan is that by that time not only will we have a new addition to the family, we will have decided where we want to settle in the city permanently. It’s not that I don’t like what the Upper West Side (UWS) has …
I am not a huge fan of grocery shopping in the first place. But the choices at Fairways in the Upper West Side is phenomenal. This is just half of the cheese on offer and my brain nearly imploded trying to choose from well over 300 varieties of tea. I’ve heard you have to put a …
Over the past 8 years, every time we arrive at my parents’ house we are incredibly jet lagged. It’s a pity for all of us because anything from a year to 3 years has passed between seeing each other. But unfortunately the 20+ hours of travel from New Zealand plus landing in the complete opposite …
While we are staying in SoHo, we are so close to Little Italy not to try out some world famous New York pizza. Chris trekked out with Preston yesterday evening to scour the Little Italy/Nolita (just North of Little Italy) area for the perfect pizza slab. He did pretty good and even managed to bring …
After only 2 days in the Big Apple and only one of those at our new apartment, we headed up to Montreal to visit my friends and family. We decided to embrace the maze of the New York public transport system. We needed to get to Penn Station for 7:30 for a train heading North. …
On the eve of flying to New York, I can’t believe how much we’ve accomplished to get to this point. I finished work less than a week ago and Chris has worked up til the last minute. Thank goodness for friends, family, understanding co-workers and a moving company that came in and packed for us. …