Go Hoboken!

Visiting and exploring new places is staying high-scored on my agenda for this year. Before going somewhere far away, let's start to discover what we have in our neighborhood. So yesterday my friend Katja and me were stranded in Hoboken http://www.hobokennj.org/visit/.

The name Hoboken sounds a little bit weird, isn't it? But the city with the population about 50.000 people is very modern and vibrant. From Hoboken you have a breathtaking view to Manhattan skyline.

It's also known as a place where the first baseball game took place.

The waiting room of the train station, built in 1907, is also very famous and considered one of the finest in the country. Actually it was closed due to damage the Hurricane Sandy caused. So sad!

But it was the first time I saw a train station in the US. Somehow it looks amateur, not real, like a game or mini-copy. Anyway, we have trains here!

We walked down the Washington street, which is really nice, with lots of cute boutiques and a whole range of nice restaurants: israeli, portuguese, thai, chinese, swiss, italian.. We even passed by an Old German Bakery, where I couldn't resist to buy a bread and real bretzels (american pretzels is a poor version of it. Sorry, friends!).

Did you notice, when you are traveling somewhere, everything seems so nice, different and lovely? I liked this book store, which features puppet shows and other activities for kids.

We browsed an antique store with a very lovely stuff.

Watched here and there,

ate sushi at japanese bistro and drove home. 30 minutes back to reality, which is actually also not so bad:).

Ho and bo and ken - see you then!