From South America, and Bolivia in particular, to New York was indeed a pleasant surprise. After 16 hours and three flights in transit we arrived wearily to New York near midnight. After an overnight in a hotel near the airport we arrived the next day at a small apartment we had rented on the upper west side of Manhattan. It has not let us down. We walked almost to town to get acquainted with our immediate environment, and then came back to pay the bill and settle in. But it was too exciting to sit in our rooms so we braved the subway and arrived downtown to check out Times Square. Wow! Wow and did we say Wow!.
Hunger finally got the better of us so we ate at a famous hamburger joint called Juniors. After a mix up with our order we fortunately received only one dinner, which was more than adequate for both of us. Dessert (New York Cheesecake) was put in a doggy bag and has been enjoyed over the last three days. And after all that we bought half price tickets to a play staring God himself ( Morgan Freeman). After the show we managed to find our way home at nearly midnight in a packed subway train. And all that was just day one!
Since then we have explored Central Park (wow!) and the Upper West Side, seen where John Lennon died, eaten from the famous Zabars deli and visited the Bronx to watch a baseball game at Yankee Stadium, where to be honest the locals seemed more preoccupied with food and drink than the game. We then explored Riverside park, (home of Wendy’s favourite scene in the movie ‘You’ve got Mail’), visited the Met (one of the most famous art galleries in the world), the Apple store, the famous toy shop FAO Schwarz, and had more wonderful home cooked food courtesy of Zabars. New York is wonderful, exciting, and friendly and did we mention – very very cold!
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