Tuesday, February 28, 2006
City Breaks
Since the 1 traffic light and 3 'bars' in Hanover can get a bit - ahem - overwhelming, we did some city breaks to take refuge in urban vibe. This allows us to fully appreciate the tranquil bliss of Hanover.
Boston
Pavel, Pierre (a fellow exchange student from HEC) and myself braved into the big city for a day trip. As all of us have been to Boston before, we weren't too ambitious but the cold prompted us to go on a trolley ride around the city.
In the evening, we went to the Elephant Walk restaurant in Cambridge to enjoy some French-Cambodian food and welcome some admitted students to London Business School.
New York City
So, there hadn't been any snow in Hanover for almost 2 weeks and the weather was so warm that it melted all the snow. We were so disappointed with the barren landscape, were also hit by midterm blues and decided to drive down to NYC to visit friends over a nice long weekend.
It appears that all of our London friends doing exchange in Stern are having a jolly good time, while the boys in Columbia are apparently stuck uptown and studying hard. We arrived in NYC at midnight and promptly went out to join the London gang at Bed, partying late into the night.
Pics below: The London gang in NYC (Pavel, Mark - on exchange at Wharton, Thiri, Rob - at Stern), Rob and Pavel looking silly
The next day, we went back to the Koren BBQ - excellent food by the way - and finally remembered its name, Chung Moo Ro, apparently the Korean equivalent of Hollywood. After a detour into an Irish Bar, we ended the night at the Russian Vodka Room enjoying some late night snacks and cranberry vodka (nalivka).
Pics below: BBQ - yummmm... with Igor, Rob, Roman and Mia, Caviar & bilinis, happy piano man, the boys after some singing
Food featured prominently in our schedule since the next day we went to Tatiana Restaurant in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn - aka Little Russia. The food was great and the entertainment was fantastic!
Pics below: Russian market in Brooklyn, us in Tatiana, the performance
I drove back during the largest snow storm in the history of NYC which delivered over 26 inches of snow on the City. It was a surreal experience driving through all that snow while surrounded by city lights. The next morning, our car was completely buried. It took Pavel 45 mins just to dig it out. Luckily I parked it at the end of the street or we might have been stuck.
Pics below: Our car buried, Central Park and the snow-covered cars, Pavel shovels
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Boston
Pavel, Pierre (a fellow exchange student from HEC) and myself braved into the big city for a day trip. As all of us have been to Boston before, we weren't too ambitious but the cold prompted us to go on a trolley ride around the city.
In the evening, we went to the Elephant Walk restaurant in Cambridge to enjoy some French-Cambodian food and welcome some admitted students to London Business School.
New York City
So, there hadn't been any snow in Hanover for almost 2 weeks and the weather was so warm that it melted all the snow. We were so disappointed with the barren landscape, were also hit by midterm blues and decided to drive down to NYC to visit friends over a nice long weekend.
It appears that all of our London friends doing exchange in Stern are having a jolly good time, while the boys in Columbia are apparently stuck uptown and studying hard. We arrived in NYC at midnight and promptly went out to join the London gang at Bed, partying late into the night.
Pics below: The London gang in NYC (Pavel, Mark - on exchange at Wharton, Thiri, Rob - at Stern), Rob and Pavel looking silly
The next day, we went back to the Koren BBQ - excellent food by the way - and finally remembered its name, Chung Moo Ro, apparently the Korean equivalent of Hollywood. After a detour into an Irish Bar, we ended the night at the Russian Vodka Room enjoying some late night snacks and cranberry vodka (nalivka).
Pics below: BBQ - yummmm... with Igor, Rob, Roman and Mia, Caviar & bilinis, happy piano man, the boys after some singing
Food featured prominently in our schedule since the next day we went to Tatiana Restaurant in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn - aka Little Russia. The food was great and the entertainment was fantastic!
Pics below: Russian market in Brooklyn, us in Tatiana, the performance
I drove back during the largest snow storm in the history of NYC which delivered over 26 inches of snow on the City. It was a surreal experience driving through all that snow while surrounded by city lights. The next morning, our car was completely buried. It took Pavel 45 mins just to dig it out. Luckily I parked it at the end of the street or we might have been stuck.
Pics below: Our car buried, Central Park and the snow-covered cars, Pavel shovels
¶ 12:03 AM
