Dinner at August in the West Village

Last night I had one of the best meals of my life at August in the West Village. There's a review and a slideshow here - in the third picture of the slideshow you can see the beautiful plaster effect on the walls which I loved.

I had this:

Spanish Mackerel a la Plancha
Baby artichokes, cucumber, grapes, and toasted almond milk

Panna Cotta with Rhubarb

It was totally delicious. I couldn't fault it in any way (although you might want to make sure and order extra vegetables with this one.)

Pawtisserie

Here's another dog shop - good name, Pawtisserie, but I couldn't work out if the food in the gourmet bakery is for dogs or humans.

Albert Einstein's house

This house in Princeton, New Jersey, is where Albert Einstein lived for the last twenty years of his life.

Day trip to Princeton

Yesterday I went on a day trip to Princeton. They were filming a Transformers movie around the campus.

Bolt Bus

I've just booked myself a trip to Philadelphia and to Washington DC on the Bolt Bus. I can't believe how cheap it is! It can only be that the locals haven't picked up on it yet - most of the New Yorkers I've met seem to take the Chinatown bus. There's WiFi and extra legroom, and $1 tickets which don't even seem that elusive (I saw a couple of $1 tickets in the dates I checked.)

There was a good review of it in the Sunday Times - see the article here.

Breakdancing boys on the subway

Now, here's an ingenious move I haven't seen before...

Obama Mama