When you get what you ask for.

New York has always been a dream of mine so to imagine that I’m here finally. I’m in my own New York apartment. Mine for 5 days. I managed to insert myself stage left right in as the main character. On our first day we picked bunches of flowers from a street side vendor and of course being close to Halloween a mini pumpkin. We’ll come back to him later.

I’m a big believer in making a house a home so we quickly made the place feel like ours by brewing a pot of coffee and moving the furniture to suit. We used Poppy’s Turkish towel as a throw and after lighting a couple of candles it started feeling just right. I forgot my own top tip of packing incense the perfect travel companion. So we had permission to do it. Candle shopping!

We also picked out an espresso martini in a tin candle as we just felt NYC is espresso martini. Our candles came from Anthropologie which TBH I was just as excited to be visiting as the big NY landmarks. Tins are such a great way to take a little bit of you on the road.

I fell in love with my bedroom window, I took photos of it in dusk, in morning light, in the early hours with the taxi lights that drove by lighting up the room like a moving night light. I mostly enjoyed climbing out and sitting on it with the sounds on New York flitting by. Who would have known I would fall asleep to these bed time stories. The sounds of the city.

We stayed at the Beekman Tower built in 1928 on 1st avenue across from the UN building it’s just the right mix of on the city and away from the crazy that you need after a busy day of let’s be real, sensory overload. With its own Rooftop bar perched on top (blog incoming) this was a great fit for a family travelling as two weeks it we def needed our own space. We fell asleep to a NY classic “You’ve got mail” and woke up to a Taylor Swift listening party. With her first single ‘Ophelia’ also the name of our rooftop bar.