"We don't really have chickens in America..."

New York. A wonderful city not entirely dissimilar to London but with it's own pros and cons. Pro: cabbies come up with gems such as the one in the title. Con: trying to hail a cab after 5 is near on impossible. Pro: service is excellent and delivered with a smile. Con: good service comes at a hefty tipping price.

Five days in The Big Apple is not enough. Especially when one of those days is spent recovering from food poisoning... The city deserves time. It may not not be huge (Manhattan is 23 square miles) but with a population of  1,634,795 people you can believe that it makes the most of its space. Uptown, Midtown, East, West, Lower , Theatre District, Greenwich Village, Soho, Chelsea, Chinatown etc etc and that's just Manhattan! Don't forget Brooklyn, Queens etc. So with so much to see and do, you really can't be expected to get the full experience in five measly days. But here's a little of the experience I did get, all be it brief.