New York (2)

Maybe I am getting old - but my hardcore travelling itnery is no longer a 12-hour marathon in the holiday destination. Instead, I take my time to wake up in the morning, eat a full on breakfast, put on make-up and dress to suite the mood before I march out of the house around 11am.

People say it takes a week to see New York, which is probably true taking it at this present pace. Strolled around Little Italy and China town today. The area around little Italy was flooded in three basic colours - green, red and white - this is true for restaurants, shops, parking meters and pavement fire extinguishers. In comparison, crossing Canal street one encounters the total chaos of China town. Assortement of dead fish covering the stalls, the pavement covered with cardboard litter...dare I say it was even more than I can bear! We hurried into a chinese ice-cream factory and sat down for some lychee and dragon eye ice-cream instead.

Walked up broadway towards TriBeCa. Discovered a Prada store with $40 million spent on its interior design. It is simply AMAZING - the flagship store has floating stairs which is both a passage and a display space, undulating walls, futuristic elevators and high tech dressing rooms with real butterfly specimens as exterior decoration. It is not suprising that the store houses every possible Prada design this season. I would put this on the top 10 DK must see list for Soho area personally =p