New York in the snow

New York is the city that has seen hundreds of times on tv, on the internet or in magazines, the one where you dream of going, but you never really know where or when. It was time that New York was turning in our heads, January 23 arrived at the corner and I could not bring myself to not be there on the day of his birthday. Just back from Ireland, I hurried to get my tickets to New York. It was done, I was relieved and happy to know that soon I would discover this city and especially to be there for the big day

It would be his third time in New York, I was keen to make the stay extra special. She was eager to pass my first discovery of the city. Is funny that, how I'm doing? I crossed my fingers for snow, she knew the city in summer, so if the weather could give me a boost, it was first discovered in New York in the snow, imagine Central Park under his coat white, and the tranquility of this light which only attypique if winter holds the secret. Oh yes it would be magical!

Day of departure finally arrived, she in Montreal, I in Lyon. Pressed as a kid on Christmas Eve, everything was perfect. But this trip was truly almost did not. During my night, I receive one of these messages that scare you, a message that said "Big snowstorm in New York. More than 2,000 flights canceled, I was just looking for now yours and mine are still scheduled, all others are canceled. Fingers crossed. "Finally, despite some setbacks thinking that the other had been taken off, we managed to reach New York. This Jan. 22, 2014, I landed for the first time in the USA, and it was done under a thick blanket of snow (although soon the streets and sidewalks are cleared of snow, we were treated to our many flakes New York .). The weather had crippled thousands of passengers, but we managed to cross an ocean and a border. The weather was with me to make even more memorable few days. How magical flying over Coney Island covered in white and sneak into the bend of buildings covered with snow, lying in deep snow in Central Park before warming in a restaurant in Coney Island watching the snow fall in wholesale flakes of the other side of the glass.

When we arrived, we took a taxi to our first New York destination: Brooklyn. We booked an Airbnb apartment in the neighborhood. Everything was perfect when we settled our dispute with the taxi driver and the NYPD (yes no less!). Just out of the car, we are left frozen on the spot, the snow crunches underfoot and whitens the bottom of our pants. We put our suitcases on Cortelyou Road, at this cozy apartment creaking parquet, large windows with the fire escape, the soft sofa, the huge library between the small office flooded sticky topics and lounge and we . We would spend three days here before finishing the living room by a hotel, but shhh, that's the surprise she does not know it yet. For this first day, we especially given the shift, wandered around the neighborhood, took our MetroCards, did some shopping to make our own bagels and it was already time to sleep because tomorrow a big day promised.

This trip was completely free, we had not had time to prepare if not locate one or two places but nothing more. We would sleep late if we wanted to, we will not race monuments. We would end soon in Montreal for good this time, as saying the door next to New York. He was essentially a good time to share wandering wherever we felt no pressure in a town ... deserted. With weather alternating between blue skies and snowflakes, bordering the temperatures -20 ° c ... the dose of magic version of New York in winter, was perfect.
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