USA East Coast Photo Book, Day Five: New York to Philly!
September 28th, 2009
Adriii finaly got the time to do her long-time expected train-trip through the north-east coast of the United States… and she is telling us about her journey!
We had to take the train to Philly today early in the afternoon so we decided to wake up early and walk the fifth avenue from the 31st street to the 59th. This avenue deserves its fame; it’s full of high-class stores like Tiffany’s or Prada. If you want to see Spartans-like man, go inside Abercrombie… they have that kind of guys helping you with your shopping but almost all the time they’re taking pictures with the costumers : P
Once in the 59th street, there’s the Apple Store, so we went inside to check our emails before going to the famous toy store F.A.O. Swartz. I’m kind of a toy lover so for me this store was amazing. They have areas for everything and the teddy bears area blew my mind xD I also loved the Lego and Harry Potter zones but the best thing about it it’s that they have the Big Piano Tom Hanks played on its movie “Big”. It’s great because you can play it! (Remember to put on your nice socks, by the way :P)
So, it was about time to go to the station and we arrived there earlier than we thought so we decided to have lunch in the Dinner in front of Penn Station. Great choice! Big plates of tasty American food, so 90s typical atmosphere and we had a lot of leftovers for the train journey.
Two hours and a half later, we were in Philadelphia trying to find our way to de hostel. It seemed to be quite far so we took a cab. If you go there and to the same hostel, take a cab: it’s so far away.
I have to admit that the place is beautiful. The Hostelling international mansion is right in the middle of Fairmount Park, a really big green are with a lot of things to do. Downtown was too far away and we had a curfew at the hostel so we decided to take a walk through the park. It is certainly beautiful and it gives you a great skyline of the city.
It was a long day so it was time to eat some of the lunch leftovers and go to bed. Tomorrow we just had one single day to visit Philadelphia so it’s going to be a long tiring day.
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We had to take the train to Philly today early in the afternoon so we decided to wake up early and walk the fifth avenue from the 31st street to the 59th. This avenue deserves its fame; it’s full of high-class stores like Tiffany’s or Prada. If you want to see Spartans-like man, go inside Abercrombie… they have that kind of guys helping you with your shopping but almost all the time they’re taking pictures with the costumers: P
FOTO 7A (SE PUEDE ALINEAR A LA IZDA?)
Once in the 59th street, there’s the Apple Store, so we went inside to check our emails before going to the famous toy store F.A.O. Swartz. I’m kind of a toy lover so for me this store was amazing. They have areas for everything and the teddy bears area blew my mind xD I also loved the Lego and Harry Potter zones but the best thing about it it’s that they have the Big Piano Tom Hanks played on its movie “Big”. It’s great because you can play it! (Remember to put on your nice socks, by the way :P)
So, it was about time to go to the station and we arrived there earlier than we thought so we decided to have lunch in the Dinner in front of Penn Station. Great choice! Big plates of tasty American food, so 90s typical atmosphere and we had a lot of leftovers for the train journey.
FOTO 7B
Two hours and a half later, we were in Philadelphia trying to find our way to de hostel. It seemed to be quite far so we took a cab. If you go there and to the same hostel, take a cab: it’s so far away.
FOTO 7D
I have to admit that the place is beautiful. The Hostelling international mansion is right in the middle of Fairmount Park, a really big green are with a lot of things to do. Downtown was too far away and we had a curfew at the hostel so we decided to take a walk through the park. It is certainly beautiful and it gives you a great skyline of the city.
It was a long day so it was time to eat some of the lunch leftovers and go to bed. Tomorrow we just had one single day to visit Philadelphia so it’s going to be a long tiring day.
FOTO 7C
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