NYC: Last day in Manhattan

We were pretty exhausted by the time our final day in New York City dawned. We had the day marked as one for a bit of shopping, a bit of wandering and going with the flow. For starters we’d organised a late check-out, which was very much the kind of flow we were happy with. [...]

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NYC: Lower East Side

A little email back and forth with Richard led to us having lunch (unfortunately not with him) at a place of his recommendation: Spring Street Natural. It was a busy restaurant, but we were soon seated and I ordered some lovely scrambled eggs mixed up with salmon, broccoli and peppers with a side of fries. [...]

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NYC: Seaports and bridges

On our penultimate day in New York we made South Street Seaport our first stop in order to buy theatre tickets for the evening. We joined a long queue in the sunshine with everyone else who’d had the same idea. Ticket touts were going up and down the line advertising their wares, assuring everyone that [...]

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NYC: Bullocks

After filling up on delicious food, the next part of our Downtown Day was to visit the Charging Bull on our way home. It was a totally touristy thing to do and we were fine with that. Walking up Broadway to see the New York Stock Exchange, he was on our way anyway. He’s a [...]

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NYC: Battery Park and Pearl Street

Back on Manhattan island we hung out for a while in Battery Park in the early evening sunshine. Next to us a cartoonist was sketching a couple of little boys and a guy approached us offering us some sweets … which sounds exactly like the sort of thing we were warned about when we were [...]

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NYC: Ellis Island

Having sailed around the Statue of Liberty we were headed to Ellis Island and the Immigration Museum, housed in the Main Building. It’s a huge and beautiful place, built in 1900 and with areas now restored to their 1918 to 1924 appearance. From the moment you step off the ferry, before you’ve even collected your [...]

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