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More old stuff from my VSCO grid. This trip feels like ages ago. Hopefully at some point I will manage to post some of the “real photos” I took in that amazing landscape.

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It’s not easy recreating a selfie version of a famous romantic painting when you don’t have a tripod or a remote shutter control. Or fog, for that matter.

I promise, this is the last post on New York. These are the photos I took with my phone and already posted in my VSCO grid.

Finally, here it is: the last day in NYC. (This doesn’t mean it’s the last post on this, though – the VSCO roundup is still to come.)

This day was like a holiday within the holidays. A little trip to the seaside. I’d been wanting to go to Coney Island for ages and was a bit disappointed when I came to know it was closed for winter already. We went anyway and it was totally worth it. The first stop was Brighton Beach, which felt strangely familiar – just from driving around Hove Beach in GTA 4. (Also, I expected Red from OINTB to jump out of a shop any second and offer us piroshkis. Well. Didn’t happen. :-()

I will hopefully come back sometime in the spring or summer and see the amusement park in action.

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Yet another beautiful walk. The High Line is amazing, the Bahntrassen I know in Germany aren’t half as cool. (You can bike on those, though.) Further content in this post: a horse, a squirrel & (*snicker*) Gay Street.

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There’s not that much to say about this post. Except: there are three squirrels! Two of them alive.

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Those fire escapes! One of my big obsessions besides water tanks and neon signs.

Be careful: there’s an incredibly kitschy sunset and the end of this post.

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Back to the Met, and this time not only for the roof. That place is huuuuuuge. I have never been so exhausted by a museum. In a good way.

(Those Egyptian statues with missing or broken noses … I cannot stop thinking of this.)

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Day number two. Halloween (as you might notice in a few photos). Another very long walk. Two ice skating rinks (one at Bryant Park, one at Rockefeller Center). So many neon signs and lights.

Just have a look at the amount of pictures and maybe you’ll feel as overwhelmed as we did standing in the middle of all that.

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Okay, here’s day number one. The weather was great and we lived close to Central Park, so we took a long (really long) walk through the park, fell in love with every squirrel, gazed at every dogwalker (they’re real!) and hurried through the Met just to go up the roof. (We came back a few days later for an appropriate visit, though.)

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