Incredible Manhattan!!!!

So - having lived in Malta for almost 2 years! (Time flies), you get used to that malta is a small island in the middle of the med! Which means small shops, a small shopping mall, and being able to get your 'basics' - which is fine and good when you in Malta! ... BUT then you step off the island (Well, fly off the island) and i feel
Like brook shields (wishful) from 'blue lagoon' where she comes to the city for the first time! And her eyes pop out!!!

Well. I have been lucky to have that experience 3 times in 2 years (Sydney, cologne, Cape Town) ... BUT NY takes it to a WHOLE other level!!!!

In 1 day, in basically a tiny radius of 2 Manhattan neighborhoods - I saw about 20 DIFFERENT ice cream shops (shaved ice cream, ice cream served in a fish cone, raw cookie dough ice cream, smoothie in a 'structure' form ice cream) and then of course, all the different 'normal' Italian ice cream places with every flavor under the sun! Ice cream is just one example of the VARIETY and DIVERSITY

Then there is this massive shop just selling SOCKS! Yes, socks. Or how about making your own unique lipstick color! Or what about a massive shop selling rainbow cakes! (Unicorn is huge here) ..

Or what about mini mini cupcakes (I can't begin to describe the multiple cupcake shops), or the rice pudding store! Or paying $10 to write your name in play dough on a wall!

And then there is the LINES! Wherever we went there was body guards and lines! 3 DIFFERENT lines in different areas - just to go into ONE 'supreme' clothing store! .. about 400 people lining up on different streets, to collect their pre-ordered 'jezeeey' runner from adidas! ... crazy!

This is on top of all the 'regular' massive stores - Zara, uniqlo etc!

Im sure there will be more of these posts!

But now, I'm going to get out of the water, put on my human legs and go explore this crazy city!