Bryant Park, NYC, in the snow!

The agency team went out for supper on the Thursday night. People were asking when I was flying back to HK - I said "tomorrow". Lots of weird looks: "are you sure, the weather's about to break". That night, there was no sign of what was to come ... but 05:00 next morning, the snow started to fall. Next to no time, we had 8" on the ground. Now if this was London, the City would be at a standstill. But NYC is geared up for it and the City was mving by the time I got out of bed. 2000+ snowploughs/gritters on the New Jersey Turnpike for example.

I've been to New York many many times before - (including several times in the Winter) - but I'd not been there when it was actually snowing. I had a couple of hours to burn before I had to leave Manhattan for the airport (and was being warned of 5+ hour delays) .. so I headed off nowhere in particular. I ended up in a magical snow-covered Bryant Park - a place, by coincidence which a colleague had told me the night before was her favourite place in the City. Was kinda cool.

I enjoyed walking round for a while. Until, that is, my "Toys R Expensive" bag full of Power Rangers and Star Wars paraphenalia (for the boys natch), burst open mid road crossing (falling in the slush). The shop idiots had given me a paper bag which turned into mache within 3 blocks of leaving the store. grrr.

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