BookCon 2015 – Saturday, May 30

I attended the BookCon earlier this year, and my main reason for going was to see Mindy live.BookCon is like the famous ComicCon but for.. well, books and authors. It’s relatively new as the first one was only held last year. The 2016 event will be held in Chicago. Bodhi the menswear dog - http://mensweardog.tumblr.com/ The…

Cupcake hunt: Empire Cake

My lovely NYC neighbour 'ACP' told me I had to go to Empire Cake and try their Salted Caramel Cupcake. I told her I was actually going to be down near that area on Sunday and popped in after going through the pop-up Seinfeld apartment. Husband and I had been past and in Empire Cake…

NYC Cheesecake hunt – Eileen’s Cheesecake

I had bought a Groupon voucher for Eileen’s Cheesecake while Husband's parents were in town. Eileen’s were celebrating their 30th anniversary at the time and through Groupon, I paid $30 and received $40 to spend in store. I had been dying to try Eileen’s for a long time as I had heard amazing things about…

Our Week In Vegas

Husband’s parents were over from the UK for a few weeks and for one of those weeks we stayed in Las Vegas. Many of you may immediately think that a week in Vegas is a long time.  Which may be true, however considering Husband Seniors had never been to Vegas, it provided us enough time…

Day 2 in Montreal, Canada

The one thing on my list I wanted to do on my Montreal list was to go to the markets, and see the Biosphere if we had time. Well, Montreal is small, so we got to do everyone on my list. Husband is truly a great travel companion because once my laziness of ‘I just…

Our first day in Montreal

Husband and I woke from a massive sleep.  I was up before Husband which was something new.  He slept in until 10:40am which was something new, too. After we got ourselves ready for the day, we headed out to tick off the list of things I had researched to do on our first day. First…

Montreal & Maison Boulud

We arrived into Montreal around 7:15PM and by the time we found our hotel and checked in, it was 7:30PM. We stayed at the Hotel Bonaventure. I selected this hotel as I wanted it as close to the train station so that on Sunday morning we wouldn’t need to wake up early from a distant…

New York to Montreal – Amtrak Adirondack Adventure

I was really excited to go to Montreal. I had never been to Canada so this trip would help me tick off the country. I heard it was a mini-France and I was excited to eat as many croissants as I could. I read in my Lonely Planet guidebook that it was a foodie haven.…

Venturing around Brooklyn and walking the Brooklyn Bridge

The day we checked out Smorgasburg in Williamsburg, the group of us decided to just venture around and walk aimlessly. Husband and I had nothing planned for the day as we just had visit Brooklyn in store. So we started walking. We walked through a large area inhabited by a Jewish community. I later read…

Smorgasburg in Williamsburg

Our first trip ever to Brooklyn was to visit the Smorgasburg - http://www.smorgasburg.com/ in Williamsburg. Smorgasburg is a weekly event where loads of different food vendors set up a site and sell their food.  Anything from ribs, burgers, buns to cookies, ice-cream sandwiches and popcorn. It was the first weekend the Smorgasburg returned to its…

Carlo’s Bakery, NYC

I had no intention of going to Carlo’s Bakery because I actually didn’t know it existed.  I stumbled across it the day I walked home from sitting the 5 hour pre-licencing course.  Carlo’s Bakery is situated at 625 8th Avenue at 42nd St, near Time Square. I have since found out that there are nine…

Central Park Sax Player

Today was another special day as it was the first time Husband and I walked through Central Park together. Since my original post, I had gone back to Central Park where I met the gentleman saxophone player and had a chat with him. So when I returned today, I introduced him to Husband and he…

Houston as a hole…

Oops, I meant to say – Houston as a whole, reminded me of some suburban parts of Brisbane. If you know Brisbane you will hopefully understand my following references. GETTING AROUND I found that you needed a car to get around to most places since everything seems to be spread around everywhere. It would be similar…

John Legend Rocked the Houston Rodeo

To see John Legend was one of the reasons I went to Houston (well, besides the obvious). Just skip below if you want to read about John Legend because I need to just quickly write up about the rodeo so I cover this as being a rodeo post and all... FOOD As soon as we entered…

Veniero’s Pasticceria, NYC

Last night after dinner at Baohaus, and since we were in the area, we went to Veniero’s Pasticceria - 342 E. 11th St.- to continue the hunt for the best New York Cheesecake. As we entered the premises, we took a number and queued up to be served.  If you wanted to sit and eat,…

Mighty Quinn’s, NYC

We had an out-of-town, actually, out-of-country friend visit us this weekend and Husband organised us to go out for a meat feast at Mighty Quinn’s Barbeque – West Village location. I was super excited as I had heard about this place and it was on my to-do list.  You will also find it as a…

Junior’s, NYC

Another must do for me is to find who really has the best New York Cheesecake. I have so far only tried Junior’s. Junior’s claim that they have “the Most Fabulous Cheesecake and Desserts”. Junior’s is a diner restaurant that sells well, diner food, along with desserts. The original restaurant can be found in Brooklyn, but…

My new favourite place in NYC – The Ziegfeld Theatre

On Friday afternoon I was near Husband’s office. Instead of going home, I was happy to find somewhere to waste some time I waited for him to finish work. And that is where I discovered my new favourite hangout – The Ziegfeld Theatre. The theatre instantly reminded me of the Hayden Orpheum Theatre Palace in…

Coal fired pizza from Lombardi’s

Last night we walked to Little Italy for pizza from Lombardi's Pizza - 32 Spring St. New York, NY 10012 after a recommendation to go there because they had coal ovens which they cooked the pizzas in. [We had our starter from Urban Lobster Shack which you can read here] When we arrived we were given a…

Our trip to the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island

Yesterday we went on the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island tour. This is one of the first big tourist sites we have actually visited since moving over. We advance purchased our Statue of Liberty with Crown access. Our ferry departed from Battery Park at 1PM and arrived at Liberty Island. It didn’t seem like it was a…