Sorry, if you thought I'd forgotten about my trip to New York...There follows a report on the Sunday there. Am I boring you by posting this way?
Slept in late. It was Sunday after all, and we'd been busy up till then. So it was almost lunchtime by the time we got into town, and we went for lunch in one of those useful places that has counters all over the shop selling all sorts of grub, sangwidges on one side, pasta and pizza on another, salads somewhere else etc.
As the weather was reasonable, we wandered around Central Park, and we hired a rowing boat on the lake. That was nice, and I highly recommend it, as it only cost $12 for an hour, with a $20 deposit. Which you get back if you don't sink the boat. Of course, the muck stirred up by your oars will convince you not to sink the boat.
We wandered some more, and watched roller discos and concerts and baseball and football and all sorts of things that go on in Central Park. If you're buying a pretzel, try one with something on it, as the plain one we bought was a little, well, plain.
Coffee was had in Zabars, as was an intense jealousy of the shops in NYC. Zabars is a deli, but no it's more than a deli. There's a huge array of coffee, chocolate, meat, dried meat and almost anything foody that you could think of all in this huge and pokey shop. Upstairs are any number of kitchen implements, from knives to pots, from pasta makers to bowls. Fantastic shop altogether.
Dinner was had in the Hard Rock Café, where we had a reasonable meal under the watchful eye of clothing, drumsticks and other memorabilia of the stars. Worth a visit, but once is enough. The memorabilia are what make it, to be honest. But then, how do you know if that really was Billy Joel's beautiful Moto Guzzi, or Madonna's knickers from some tour or other? Maybe I'll start a rock memorabilia collection here at home? Hmmmm.... ("that's Elvis' guitar there, those jeans belonged to, eh, Bono, and that sock? That sock belonged to the great Ronan Keating!)
Apologies for the lack of photographs - my camera battery had become well, moderately discharged.
Slept in late. It was Sunday after all, and we'd been busy up till then. So it was almost lunchtime by the time we got into town, and we went for lunch in one of those useful places that has counters all over the shop selling all sorts of grub, sangwidges on one side, pasta and pizza on another, salads somewhere else etc.
As the weather was reasonable, we wandered around Central Park, and we hired a rowing boat on the lake. That was nice, and I highly recommend it, as it only cost $12 for an hour, with a $20 deposit. Which you get back if you don't sink the boat. Of course, the muck stirred up by your oars will convince you not to sink the boat.
We wandered some more, and watched roller discos and concerts and baseball and football and all sorts of things that go on in Central Park. If you're buying a pretzel, try one with something on it, as the plain one we bought was a little, well, plain.
Coffee was had in Zabars, as was an intense jealousy of the shops in NYC. Zabars is a deli, but no it's more than a deli. There's a huge array of coffee, chocolate, meat, dried meat and almost anything foody that you could think of all in this huge and pokey shop. Upstairs are any number of kitchen implements, from knives to pots, from pasta makers to bowls. Fantastic shop altogether.
Dinner was had in the Hard Rock Café, where we had a reasonable meal under the watchful eye of clothing, drumsticks and other memorabilia of the stars. Worth a visit, but once is enough. The memorabilia are what make it, to be honest. But then, how do you know if that really was Billy Joel's beautiful Moto Guzzi, or Madonna's knickers from some tour or other? Maybe I'll start a rock memorabilia collection here at home? Hmmmm.... ("that's Elvis' guitar there, those jeans belonged to, eh, Bono, and that sock? That sock belonged to the great Ronan Keating!)
Apologies for the lack of photographs - my camera battery had become well, moderately discharged.
Shops in New York look very interesting, they certainly seem to be on the grand size of things. I love nice high ceilings in a public building, it makes them feel spacious even when it is packed with people. The NYPD tower thingie shown in a previous blog looks like a 'walker' from star wars. Cool. It sounds like you guys did ok with the food while you were over there, my own experience with american food wasn't fantastic (the west coast though) with good food reasonably hard to come by. I think your most recent blog gives a good indication to your preference to food types with snadwiches being the first thing you mention with slad tailing off at the end! How did you find the coffee? Weak or strong?
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