We hit the tourist trail a bit, doing the Staten Island Ferry to see the Statue of Liberty,
got to the top of the Empire State Building 102 floors of it, wandered around Grand Central Station,
and walked for miles around the various neighbourhoods of the island.
Central park was lovely, full of people enjoying themselves and the Guggenheim building is just amazing. It had the best collection of Old Masters of different styles that we've seen, not big, but placed together so that you could see the different techniques.
The view from the top of the Empire State Building is simply fantastic, a faff getting up there through security but worth it.
The 9/11 memorial was ever so tragic but tasteful, not maudlin which was a relief.
A small part of a very long list of names
There is a lot to impress us, but Time Square was a lot smaller than we'd expected and the city is pretty scruffy, oh and some of that steam that escapes from the underground heating system, the stuff you see in films, stinks.
That said again the people were good, not as nice as those on the west coast but always helpful. They had a great accent, we asked a cop for directions but both of us were so busy listening to his accent we didn't hear what he said.
Yellow cabs are everywhere just as in the movies and the traffic is bad but I didn't think it was as bad as all that.
Pretty much every street had a photo waiting to be taken.
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