Day1 : Men on a mission
Spent the day yesterday walking around NYC and New Jersey. We called into the office while we were over in Hoboken and everything went well, starting with an easy start Monday morning. Although we did have some grief with the elevator man, who brought us up, then down (once we revealed we had no appointment) , then up again when we told him we would be beginning work on the monday (and once we worked the Irish charm of course). The Office is right by the train station, waterfront, and directly accross the road from an Irish bar.
Here is the office (Grey building on left)...
Turning around 180 degrees from that same spot and you get this...
Here is our office on the left, with Irish bar highlighted for dramatic effect...
This is a rough idea of the distance from the PATH station, about a minutes walk...
After Hoboken we headed into Journal Square in Jersey City to have a look around the area where we might be getting our apartment. After wandering around for a while and getting totally ripped off with those phone card things, we headed back to NYC. Seems like a decent area though and there was plenty of people walking about once the school-kids were released.
We wandered again in NYC, before heading off for something to eat but on our way we saw a crowd gathering beneath one of the buildings, so naturally, we gathered too. It appeared to be a man with one leg hung over the side of a building, with police and firemen below. We stayed for a while out of morbid curiosity but moved eventually. As we were making our way back to the subway we saw this "man" from a new angle, and it was just some piece of steel... how anti-climatic. Futher on down the road we stumbled accross none other than Carmel, it's a small city after all. We went home together, had some dinner, and slept.
The "man"...
Today we are starting the day in an Irish Community center, and were guided down to the computers by some girl from the north, feels like home! Just checking a few e-mails and we got some returns on our inquiries so we have some people to ring and some apartments to visit.
Here is the office (Grey building on left)...
Turning around 180 degrees from that same spot and you get this...
Here is our office on the left, with Irish bar highlighted for dramatic effect...
This is a rough idea of the distance from the PATH station, about a minutes walk...
After Hoboken we headed into Journal Square in Jersey City to have a look around the area where we might be getting our apartment. After wandering around for a while and getting totally ripped off with those phone card things, we headed back to NYC. Seems like a decent area though and there was plenty of people walking about once the school-kids were released.
We wandered again in NYC, before heading off for something to eat but on our way we saw a crowd gathering beneath one of the buildings, so naturally, we gathered too. It appeared to be a man with one leg hung over the side of a building, with police and firemen below. We stayed for a while out of morbid curiosity but moved eventually. As we were making our way back to the subway we saw this "man" from a new angle, and it was just some piece of steel... how anti-climatic. Futher on down the road we stumbled accross none other than Carmel, it's a small city after all. We went home together, had some dinner, and slept.
The "man"...
Today we are starting the day in an Irish Community center, and were guided down to the computers by some girl from the north, feels like home! Just checking a few e-mails and we got some returns on our inquiries so we have some people to ring and some apartments to visit.
posted by Andy at 16:58
1 Comments:
Delighted to get the updates. Hope the househunting goes well. Best of luck in the job on Monday. You are missing the Sunshine collection tomorrow but S and B are joining us for the early stint! Breakfast in Raheny. Keep posting!!!
Post a Comment
<< Home