Had a good night's sleep in a comfortable bed. Woke and dressed. We went downstairs to book a tour for the afternoon. $94 US for a 5 hour tour which has a boat tour included.
Walked around the block to find somewhere for breakfast. Couldn't face sitting in the hotel restaurant and having the $17.95 breakfast buffet. We walked for about 1.5k around various blocks - all the shops seems to be on parallel streets with the apartments on the perpendicular side streets. (everything is in rectangles here)
As indicated in the American premier information authority on all things (Seinfeld), street parking is not something to be taken lightly. The pic of the close car was the same in the back as well. Hope they didn't want to get out. Fortunately, one company has been working on the answer.
Tim found a place which looked like a cross between a shop and KFC (complete with breakfast wraps of various kinds on an overhead menu board like KFC etc.) As I'm not interested in any fast food places, we found a deli that much better suited the purpose. Tim ordered a bagel with ham and cheese, I got a breakfast bagel with egg and sausage. We both had coffee. I think Tim's came with free angioplasty balloons. The coffee was really very good.
As we sat looking out of the window, watching the occasional person go by on a fold away scooter, Richard Kind walked by our window walking a dog and chatting with a companion. Hadn't really thought about the Star-Spotting activity but now it's on (baby!) -George Costanza
Went on a bus tour of Manhattan Island.
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| Lower entrance to Central Park |
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| Trump Tower |
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| Statue outside the Rockefeller Centre |
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| Empite State Building |
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| Only here to make Kristina jealous |
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| Where we had lunch |
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| Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge |
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| Brooklyn Bridge |
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| Woolworths Building - with gold top |
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| Girls on our bus who spent the day taking selfies |
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| Manhattan skyline |
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| Manhattan skyline |
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| Home of America's first saint |
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| Manhattan skyline |
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| More bloody skyline |
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| Yacht Marins from "Wolf of Wall Street" |
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| Statue of Liberty |
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| Tony with Statue growing out of his head - not a selfie! |
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| Staten Island Ferry |
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| President on the way |
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| Obamacraft |
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| Ticker tape parades are remembered by these in the sidewalk |
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| Looking down Wall Street |
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| Twin Towers Memorial - no longer called "ground zero" |
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| Where Yoko Ono lives and John was killed |
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| Tribute to John by Yoko across the road in Central Park |
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| Where Bruce Willis and Steve Jobs lived |
Love the photos. The Ground Zero site sure is sobering.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you're in an episode of Seinfeld - so now you're actually immersed in TV as if some wicked witch a la Cornelia Funk has put a spell on you for watching too much TV.
Finally got Jake to read your blog since I was laughing at the angioplasty balloons comment - although, from a nutritionist's point of view that bagel is a nightmare!