Brooklyn weekend

We had such a wonderful week with Nick and Stef in town!

We spent most of the weekend exploring bits of Brooklyn, a place we love more and more the longer we are here.

Autumn sunshine on the East River Ferry from Dumbo to Williamsburg.

Atlantic Avenue street fair near Park Slope

Amazing projections under Manhattan Bridge at the Dumbo Art Festival

Crazy long queue for famous Grimaldis pizza

 The pizza was good but not the best we've had. 

But we were so hungry by this point we devoured it happily!

 Enjoying some very good cocktails at The Bedford in Williamsburg.

Come back soon!!

Other things happening lately

Here is what the past few weeks have looked like for us...

Boat trip to the fascinating Immigration Museum on Ellis Island (via the statue of libery)

 Showing Mum and Simon all around campus and our neighbourhood (including our favourite local brunch and sushi spots)

Enjoying sweet treats brought from home.

A lovely evening out with free tickets to the Affordable Art Fair opening drinks reception. followed by a new delicious pizza discovery with friends.

 Continuing to enjoy just how colourful New York is when everything comes in to bloom.

Sunny afternoons at the Brooklyn Flea.

Enjoying Mum's food whilst we had the chance (and reaping the benefits of lending her my Ottonlenghi cookbook when we left London)

 Celebrating Dave turning 30 with an amazing dinner and cocktails out and some New York cheesecake at home.

And sampling a new Taco Truck at the end of our street for a pretty much perfect working lunch...

(And just in case you're thinking it's one long holiday there has also been a lot of paper writing and abstract submitting -from Dave- and job applications, interviews and freelance craziness -from me-!)

Happy weekend!

Some other fun things that happened in February

A trip on the free Staten Island ferry - freezing cold but amazing views of downtown Manhattan on a sunny day.

We finally discovered some local (almost) budget shopping possibilities at Trader Joes and Fairway. 

With the added excitement of a trolley escalator at Trader Joes and a well-stocked British aisle at Fairway!

First New York theatre trip was amazing (and of course included some pre-theatre pizza)

Bright lights of Broadway

We saw Other Desert Cities at the Booth Theatre. Sadly Stockard was off sick but we decided just to go anyway and the understudy was brilliant too.

Theatre tickets seem so much pricier than in London so sadly i think it will be a slightly rarer treat for us here (miss you National Theatre!)

The weirdest thing was that there wasn't the usual mad rush to the bar in the interval. As in no one had a drink...

The New York Giants won the Superbowl and had a ticker tape victory parade through the city. 

Seeing as this sounded like the most American thing ever we had to go for a look.

Look - people wearing caps backwards!

We still can't get over the joy of an American diner breakfast.

We had a lovely Saturday evening seeing The Artist at my new favourite cinema. Seriously, everyone there seemed like a character from a Woody Allen film - New York heaven!

We loved the film and grabbed a quick Shake Shack burger afterwards. Perfect.

The evening was only slightly marred by the spotting of three rats within one block on the walk home, two of whom were in full hand to hand combat. 

New York is doing nothing for my rodent phobia.

And finally a couple of  favourite views from our neighbourhood...