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New York - Day 11
Day 11 - Our penultimate day in New York. After a epic 12 hour lay in we
decided to leave the city and head for Brooklyn. After breakfast we made our
way to City Hall and watched some street performers before trekking across
Brooklyn Bridge. I loved that people left messages, locks and their twitter handles
all over the walkway.
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| Brooklyns Locks of love |
The bridges of New York are as iconic as the city
it’s self. Brooklyn, Manhattan & Washington (A.k.a BMW) are very
distinctive in design and my favourite was the Manhattan a majestic blue suspension
bridge with three lanes, four subway tracks, a walkway and a bikeway.
We didn’t go far into Brooklyn, I have to admit I
was a little worried as the streets were not busy and I had become accustomed
to being constantly surrounded by the huddled safety of the other tourists, but
we found it to be a lovely friendly place with really cute houses and cafe’s.
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| Brooklyn Bridge |
On Brooklyn’s river front there was a gorgeous carousel
and beautiful seated/picnic areas where lots of kids birthday parties being
held and families were flying kites. We watched several couples having their
engagement and wedding photos plus there were several cute first or early dates
taking place on tartan blankets with wicker baskets.
We stopped for some gelato, in between taking lots
of photographs and already starting to reminisce about how great the holiday,
neither of us wanting to come home!
We headed back to the city on the Manhattan Bridge;
don’t expect to have a decent conversation as there trains are every few
minutes, we walked mostly in silence, catching the last sunset in New York
City.
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| Manhattan Bridge |
We headed back to our hotel via a luggage shop to accommodate
all books we had bought during the trip!
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| City View from the Manhattan Bridge |
We decided to have dinner at the
Hilton Hotel restaurant; Mike had steak and I have a pear, walnut and salmon
salad but made a very English mistake - ordering chips with my meal and of
course a big bowl of crisps turned up - doh!
Back in our room, as much as I wanted to
make the most of our last night in New York, my pain and tiredness got the
better of me and we ate cookies in bed whilst watching another pay per movie -
so rock and roll!
L x
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