Le Couvent Diary

Ali and I are on our hols in the Big Apple. Today's our penultimate day and this morning we're hanging out in our wonderful Marmara apartment in Upper East side.

We've bought a ton of books, shoes, clothes and lots more luggage to carry it all. We found a hat, bamboo shirt and crunchy heritage apples in the Greenflea market;

cycled through Central Park and Harlem with the fantastic Johannes from Bike the Big Apple and a family from Nancy, France;

seen some powerful images of the World Trade Centre after 9/11 at the Ground Zero Workshop ;

spent a morning spiralling up and down the Guggenheim Museum marvelling at a multitude of Kandinskys;

failed miserably in our attempt to book a Liberty Island trip online; had lunch in the sublime Grand Central Station Oyster Bar and several other Texan, Indian, American restaurants.

Tonight we're off to Falai , way downtown, for some Italian deliciousness. As if all that eating isn't enough we're taking a food & culture tour round Brooklyn tomorrow before flying home via Heathrow and Toulouse.

You really can pack a lot into six days without feeling wrecked at the end. Next week I'm going on a diet though. It's been tough on the waistline.