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Was the best personalised plate I’ve seen in a while, on an Audi S4, nice.
So now we’re in Toronto headed out in the car to go and see courtney’s dad, the dentist, because has cavities which need sorting now.
So back to the other day and our journey away from America. With ian in the car we had a gorgeous drive up through Vermont to the border, the car clean and tidy we expected the worst. I guess it was a bother that we had to cross the border on the highway, putting us an extra hour out of our preferred route to the cottage.
But upon talking to the border guard, she seemed so overwhelmed by these English guys asking for their work visa that she didn’t even care about our lack of car registration, let alone check our vehicle contents, score 1.
Then inside the building we had to await for a grand 8 minutes and were issued with a Canadian work permit, score 1. It couldn’t have gone more smoothly
So we spent a couple of nights at ian’s dads cottage on lake mamphemagog, peaceful, beautiful totally chilled.
We had a hike up the ski hill, showing us how unfit we are, but the views were awesome.
Then we all had a campfire in the Cold and a BBQ, damn my garlic aubergine steaks were killer.
Wednesday we went up to Montreal. Ian spent all day stressing having left his phone charger in the states, we not having a place to crash, so we stayed in a hostel, so great to meet some random people. And later we met ian’s uni mates for a few drinks, finished off with a tour of mont real to see the city from above at night, stunning.
It’s a nice city, an the girls are gorgeous, but it was time to move on.
So on the boring drive down the 401 to Toronto we got the blue and red flashing lights of trouble. So we got pulled by an unmarked police, very amiable man. But still he issued us with a $170 fine for driving with a radar detector, fair enough, but if we’d known then we wouldn’t have driven with it. So now he has it and we can only guess that in general it’s saved us money on speeding fines on our 7000 mile drive around the states.
So toronto. It’s obviously pretty wealthy compared to most places that we’ve been to on our trip, I’m judging by the abundance of nice European cars and expensive fashion around here.
So the city skyline is nice especially at night with the CN tower pulsing with different colours.
Hangind with courtney and laura and their friends we are getting to see the cooler side to the town, bars and music and it’s great to hang around with some lovely ladies.
So far we’ve been having a great time, though it’s been a while since I’ve not felt tired, maybe linger since we’ve had a night off from partying, but good times.

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Feeling pretty rough in Amherst.
Last night we saw jay-z and it’s was one of the best gigs that I’ve been to in my life. I’m not a huge fan of hip-hop, but jay-z is one of the biggest acts there is. The stage setup was awesome and the live acts awesome. The arena was packed out, 10000 people, all loving it, knowing the lyrics, the energy was unbelievable. The security was totally anal, but it’s cool because the whole experience was such a surprise and gotta say it, sic!
Before that we drank round another student house and it was so stereotypical of an American party, like in the films. Kegs, beer pong, music, girls who love the english accent, general madness.
After the gig we partied some more and now feel pretty tired.
So now we’re chilling, waiting for Christian so that we can find a printer to print off our Canadian work visa because we’re going to cross the border. Ian’s taking us up to his dads cottage for some time out.
America has been unbelievable, we’ve driven over 7000 miles through 20 states. We’ve met some great people, had many once in a lifetime experiences, lots of first times, a trip of a lifetime that words will never quite describe.
I’ve taken some nice photos and will upload some when I find time.
So fingers crossed that we don’t have too much trouble getting into Canada.

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Overwhelmed we are.
Right now we’re sat on the Q train headed back to manhatton.
Yesterday we woke up and wandered off to the Bronx to have some food. The Bronx is considered the least safe area of new York. We went to find the real little Italy. It took us time, getting lost but we found a sweet Italian restaurant. So the pizza wasn’t up to our expectations, the guy who ran the place was a great character and singer to boot, i’d say he made my day, shame about the pizza, but the risotto balls were the beat tasting thing I’ve had in this country.
After, we wandered back to time square to find some broadway tickets. The price for hair, musical, was to high so we went to tkts where we got tickets to Burn the floor.
Well off we walked to the Empire State building. It’s a wise move to go there after dark, when it’s bloody cold, because we only queued for 5 minutes. Go us. It’s awesome to see manhatton and the surrounding area by night, but bloody hell, how much electricity it must take to light this place up.
Alan and I headed to broadway again to see out show. We were the youngest guys in there to see it, and it’s certainly not usual for 2 straight guys to go and see a dance, but what the hell, it’s entertaining and amazing and mezmorizing, and the girls are beautiful. If say it was worth the cost. I already had a desire to learn to dance, but this just hightens it. One day, one day.
Afterwards we spent way too long walking around in the rain downtown, in the wrong direction, getting WET. Well, we hooked up with omri and itmar in a bar, where there were too many loud and pretention new yorkers. On to the next bar, too lazy to chat up girls, we chatted to some geeks, and headed to another bar with them. We were treated to a horrible coffee liquor and I spent too much of my time arguing with a pig headed Jewish guy about democracy and war. The highlight after getting lost on the way home was chatting to a guy on the subway. If he’s sucessful he’ll be a super famour millionaire, good luck, bit he deinately has it going for him.
Today it has been grey, grey, and rainy, it makes me feel like we’re in England. Alan and I skipped out on a rainy day at six flags and wandered around Harlem. I’m pretty upset that we didn’t find any ghetto, though I got some stares in on place.
Brunch involved organic wraps, so there was us two White guys hanging about in Harlem outside the organic veg place, super gangster.
We headed down to the water front to be shouted at by a policeman for walking where we shouldn’t, and a policewoman had told to walk there for safety. So we crossed the Brooklyn bridge, some nice rainy photos were taken, and I tried to invade as many photos being taken by other people.
We’ve changed train, but there doesn’t seem to be another train coming, hmmm, maybe we’ve buggered up. I hear thunder.
Well we’re trying to get back from coney island. We went there to ride the rollercoaster, see Brighton beach and whatever else. The amusments are closed down and it was real grey. It’s like a land a million miles from new York, lost in time. We had a bad beer in a crazy rockabilly bar, felt like we were tripping out, intrigued about this strange world, we left before we became a part of it.
So now we sit in this rainy station, are we going anywhere?

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• been to see a hockey game at madison sq gdn, ace, but so tired from partying hard in princeton last night. explore NY tomorrow, what to see? #
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• Sat in burn the floor, waiting on broadway. Been to see new York nightime skyline from the empire state. Italian brunch in the Bronx. #

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I’m on the subway going back to I it Harlem? Wherever we’re staying.
We’ve just been at Madison square garden to watch the rangers play the devils, ice hockey. Well the rangers lost which sucks, but it was pretty fun. It’s a crazy sport, and five minutes in, we were entertained by a fight. The beers were so overpriced at $8.25, but it’s all part of the experience.
The ticket touts also fun, playing these big black men of each other, trying to get the best price without erring screwed over, eg fake tickets.
So D.C. was cool, we were treated by our host to a night time tour of the monuments, while all lot up and not too touristy. Strangest of all was the memorial for the second world war, which is a beautiful monument, more of a celebration than we Europeans are accustomed to, which goes to show the American mentality to war, especially WWII.
Well going out in Washington was dull, but it’s a pretty town.
So yesterday we went to Princeton, super lush, lots of mansions, über posh, and great with the beautiful autumn colour trees. What to say but we partied, got drunk, played pool, danced, sang kareoke, have some terrible photos, chatted about stuff, and cut harry’s hair. Alan managed to get messy, much to the amusement of harry and jack’s dad.
I had to drive into new York, alan being to drunk still this morning, we got lost, and the gps couldn’t even handle navigating manhatton.
This place is crazy and full of so many different people, it’s like being at home.

• Seen pretty old savannah. Then met our host at his high school, where he works. Wise well travelled young guy. Dc tomorrow #
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• Waney wakey, and it's sunny outside. Hot lots of couchsurf message to sort out for our stay in new York. #

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