Six months of business, procrastination and rarity of muse killed off my previous efforts at putting together a blog about what I've been up to since I arrived here.
However, I have decided to try again and to put some things down on a (relatively) frequent basis.
Just so it's clear, I am aware of the potential pit-falls of these kind of travel / life abroad blogs. For example, I've previously read those that use very flowery and pretentious language to over-state the excitement of a self-evidently interesting experience. I have also seen those that assume people will be interested in every tedious waking activity a person might undertake, simply because they are in an interesting town several Time Zones away. I'll try and bear these dangers in mind.
With these thoughts in mind, I'll try not to talk too much about what I had for breakfast (except to describe my Bagel addiction), my trips to the Pharmacist (except to say its called 'Duane Reed', not 'Boots' / 'Superdrug') how many hours sleep I might get (except to repeat cliches that this is one thing that supposedly never happens in this city) and I will leave it for the MSNBC website if you want a daily NY Weather update (except to say how erratic and strange it seems for someone used to Southern England's temperate climes).
Though the idea of being in New York seems like a good "theme" for a blog, without a clear structure, it's possible I might end up
I think I will structure it around a list of the differences between New York and London /GB. The British like to think that they're just like their cousins across the Pond, this isn't exactly true and I will try to explain why with a list of differences between the two. Will attempt to update it every day and build up a list of a hundred examples. Shouldn't be too hard to put that together! I will also try and fill these in with a few posts on specific interesting things I have been doing.
However, I have decided to try again and to put some things down on a (relatively) frequent basis.
Just so it's clear, I am aware of the potential pit-falls of these kind of travel / life abroad blogs. For example, I've previously read those that use very flowery and pretentious language to over-state the excitement of a self-evidently interesting experience. I have also seen those that assume people will be interested in every tedious waking activity a person might undertake, simply because they are in an interesting town several Time Zones away. I'll try and bear these dangers in mind.
With these thoughts in mind, I'll try not to talk too much about what I had for breakfast (except to describe my Bagel addiction), my trips to the Pharmacist (except to say its called 'Duane Reed', not 'Boots' / 'Superdrug') how many hours sleep I might get (except to repeat cliches that this is one thing that supposedly never happens in this city) and I will leave it for the MSNBC website if you want a daily NY Weather update (except to say how erratic and strange it seems for someone used to Southern England's temperate climes).
Though the idea of being in New York seems like a good "theme" for a blog, without a clear structure, it's possible I might end up
I think I will structure it around a list of the differences between New York and London /GB. The British like to think that they're just like their cousins across the Pond, this isn't exactly true and I will try to explain why with a list of differences between the two. Will attempt to update it every day and build up a list of a hundred examples. Shouldn't be too hard to put that together! I will also try and fill these in with a few posts on specific interesting things I have been doing.
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