Wednesday 4th October
Breakfast in hotel and then off to catch the bus. Luckily flagged down the driver of a bus on his
way to the start of his days route.
Weather continues hot and quite humid.
Validated our tickets for the bus and attractions included in
the ticket and joined the 'Uptown' route.
Basically the route went up one side of Central Park, passed
all sorts of celebrities homes (some we recognised the names), the Dakota Building
and Strawberry Fields, Grant's Tomb over by the Hudson and then back down the
other side of Central Park, through the Museum Mile, among many The Guggenheim
and on by the Zoo back to the start.
A View of Central Park
Entrance to the Dakota Building - where John Lennon was shot and killed.
Yoko Ono still lives there
Swapped over to the 'Midtown' route.
This went straight over to the Hudson River where we got off
to catch the Circle Line Sightseeing Cruise boat. This took us for a much more peaceful trip
down the river to view Ellis Island and The Statue of Liberty. A nice break from New York traffic.
Manhattan Skyline
Statue of Liberty
New Yorkers certainly have got their traffic management down
to fine art to cause the maximum frustration.
They make the best streets through the city six lanes wide, use the
lanes by the curb for parking, the next lane each side for double parking and
leave two middle lanes for "moving" traffic, thousands of Yellow
Cabs, Black Limousines, Buses delivery trucks, bikes, pedestrians et al,
everyone adding liberal amounts of horn use to aid things. Progress you can imagine is slow, walking
looks quicker.
All too soon back on the bus to continue to The Empire State
Building.
The Empire State Building
Off the bus to take the lift ride
up to the 80th floor for views over the city, through glass. Then a short lift ride up to the 86th floor
for the proper viewing level outside.
Fantastic views all round, bit of heat haze in the distance.
Back down to walk back to our hotel, bit of a long walk but
buses hard to come by and getting a bit late.
Dinner in nice restaurant
just by the hotel and then back to room, another long tiring day.
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