Empire state of tired

Arrived in NYC a few hours ago. Gorgeous sunshine, blue skies but very cold. Freezing in fact, below zero, even 32F.

Time change -> GMT - 5 hours

Currency -> £1 = US$ 1.5 ish

To recap the day so far:

Left a very balmy London 11am GMT. I reset my watch on take off and then had a very nice chicken with celeriac mash with a beer for breakfast at 7am. Long distance travel makes me ravenous so I also finished off La's porcini mushrooms. 3 movies (The Social Network, some research on New York with Drew Barrymore and Justin Long, and some other film) and a Michael McIntyre later, our round the world trip officially started.

Cab from the airport to our friends in upper east side of Manhattan, darling. Dumped our stuff and then donned ski jackets (freezing!) and went for a walk to shake out the BA cobwebs. Saw Gracie Mansion and walked next to the East River.

Going out for dinner/drinks with our hosts in an hour or so. The following were mentioned: Times Square, Top of the Rock, Marriot Marquis. All sounds great, as long as I can go in jeans, a fleece top and trainers... so just like in London, then.

Update: Cabbed to Times square to look round and grab a bite to eat. OMG! Lights, screens, all us tourists. Stood in 'that spot' so that the camera puts you on the screen, yay. And loads of cops. With guns!

Went to a deli (Mr Broadway, in, erm, Broadway) for late supper - deep filled beef tongue sandwich. Two regular slices of Rye, then about 3 ruminants worth of tongue. Delish!

Very tired and a little tongue-tied, back to our hosts for first night in New York.

It was afternoon, it was evening. Day 1.