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We managed to score some pretty cheap flights to the Big Apple so headed across the Atlantic for an action-packed 4 night jaunt in the city that never sleeps...and it didn't disappoint! Might as well start at the beginning... We flew out of Heathrow at the rather civilised time of 9am on Thursday morning - but due to all the security issues lately …
Back in the City
... the end of the cul-de-sac. You could tell it was a bus stop because it was marked out with witches hats. As usual there was no shelter. The idea I believe is that you wait in your car if it is raining. Who walks to a bus stop?
The journey was fairly uneventful, despite the plethora of shops and shopping malls on the route and all through the parts of New Jersey I have travelled, the bus quickly filled with locals going to Manhattan for a days ...
The Big Apple
... River between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. We walked the length of the bridge and got plenty of pics. We got good views of Lower Manhattan and the Manhattan Bridge. Over on the Brooklyn side, we had a look around before finding a nice little place called Dumbo Kitchen for lunch. It was small and a good place to rest our feet for a while, which were starting to get sore now with the amount of pavement walking we've done. We're going to sacrifice fashion ...
Hell's Apartment
... Waited until curtain up in a little New Orleans type bar Bourbon St Grille..the gals knocked back a couple of Carrie-style Cosmopolitans/ me a Mint Julep (I am big on being sympatico with the ambience) R is stuck with Heineken. Modest dinner of Shrimp (R) and BBQ Pork (me) po-boys (soft rolls filled w meat and salad) and to sustain us thru the show, Choc brownie (me) and Blueberry cheesecake (R) justified on teh ground of all the miles we ...
Kanonen auf Manhattan
... Paar aus Brooklyn dabei, mit dem wir bald ins Gespräch kommen. Die Tour führt zunächst ins Castle Williams, eine von ehemals vier Festungen im New Yorker Hafen, die Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts in Erwartung eines britischen Angriffs errichtet wurden. Im Krieg von 1812 landeten die Briten allerdings nicht in New York, sondern in Maryland und brannten die US Haupstadt Washington nieder. Dumm gelaufen.
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