Bagels, yum...

New York City, what a town! We saw so much, but always felt we were only scratching the surface. My highlights: The off-Broadway show 'Drumstruck,' the Annual Andy Kaufman awards at Carolines, and 'Bodies - The Exhibition' which is a display of dissected cadavers and information about how you work: Really interesting, beautiful in places, touching in places, I highly recommend it.

New York sounds like sirens, is the colour of money-green, tastes of a martini, feels like the vibration of a subway through your soles, and smells like the steam rising from manholes. Don't forget to check the photos!

Now that we have hit Toronto, the differences hit you like a spring shower. There is a tension you feel in NYC that develops from a mixture of the sirens, the crowds, the traffic, the high-rises, and you don't notice the tension until these things - and the tension - are removed. For example, I've heard one siren in Toronto in three days, compared with one an hour in NYC.