A few years ago I was reading Hot Press Magazine, and in their travel section they had written this feature on Philadelphia (the online archive version doesn’t have all the pictures that made it so compelling). I read it, looked at the pictures and thought I’d like to go there, and since then it was always on my list when thinking about where I’d like to go in America. When I settled on doing the J1 in New York, part of the reason was it was a good location for travelling to other cities – I was able to get busses to Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington DC, and the time I spent travelling to all these different places was my favourite of the summer.
