Gift-set for my Mama

Today was (is) a long day. I got up "early" to go to a fleamarket – Viennese Cafés selling stuff after cleaning out their storages! Fantastic. I didn't buy anything worth mentioning but still it was fun. Afterwards I went directly to Vienna Fashion Camp. I arrived around 11:30 a.m. and stayed until 5 something p.m. Met an old acquaintance (LINK to his blog) Went to Vienna Fashion Week and got to know a nice girl (LINK to her blog). Went home because of starvation. Went to a burger-restaurant.
And then back home again and then:

Because on Monday my mum is leaving Austria again I prepared (am preparing) a little "goodie box" for her. I wrapped (am wrapping) 8 different soaps in white-transparent paper and T made a box out of black cardboard.
I hope she likes it. We'll see.

10 things we did in NYC

1. Go up Empire State Building at night – but only after you already know a bit about New York because then you can look out for the places you've already been to.

2. Go out in Williamsburg – don't dress up but look as if you didn't care. Go to "Public Assembly" (N. 6th x Wythe) or any other bar you find there.

3. Talk to everybody about everything – I got cake, a banana, a sandwich for free because I talked to people (and obviously because I looked hungry) and we got invited to 3 parties.

4. Stay in Loft Hostel, Brooklyn (Varet Street) – breakfast included, high ceilings, nice receptionists, clean kitchen, jacuzzi and garden. Free BBQ on Thursdays.

5. Go to "Powder Puff Beauty Shop" – a bar in a former hairdressers shop. They still have hairdriers! Drinks are extremely cheap and they even fulfill individual drink wishes. Bartender is extremely nice, DJs are nice too and the music is good old rock'n'roll.

6. Get a tattoo – at Daredevil (Ludlow Street between Houston & Stanton).

7. Go to the beach on Coney Island and see the Atlantic Ocean.

8. Leave town via China Town Bus (Fung Wah Bus).

9. Bathe in the sun in Central Park.

10. Walk! – Don't go everywhere by subway/metro/bus/cab. It's cheaper, it's healthy, it's exhausting and it pays because you get to know the city.

NYC Fashion Week

Funny thing happened these days … last week I came to New York with two friends. We didn't plan anything – not even accommodation. That was the bad part because after 3 nights we had to look for a new place to stay and about everything was extremely expensive because of the upcoming Fashion Week. We didn't even know that NY Fashion Week was in September.
I'm in New York and still missed Fashion Week … but I saw lots of models, many photographers around Manhattan and many super-stylos.