After last night's celebrations we feel a walk is in order today to work off all that food. The walk to the Metro takes a matter of minutes, but getting the machine to issue 4 metro cards takes considerably longer. During the time it takes all 3 boys to get the tickets, I've had a difficult conversation/consultation with another tourist in pigeon english about what metro card he needs, I'm not sure I was a great deal of help...
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| The Highline Park |
We've become quite good with the metro now and navigate our way to Greenwich village area. The start of our walk down Bleecker Street is interesting with lots of bars, music venues and shops to look at. The rest of the history lesson seems to be lost on the boys, even the old speakeasy and the thinnest house in New York (only 9 feet wide). We head for the Highline Park. It's a converted rail track above the street and has been converted into a high level park. The clock of bells is interesting, with a bell from a different part of the city sounding every minute..
We stop for lunch at a diner, it's a typical New York diner. we're seduced by the special of the day - forgetting the belly busting meal last night and the whole reason for our walk. It arrives, soup, followed by a huge main course then dessert of jello or rice pudding. After all that we stagger out, roll our way up to Madison Square Gardens and Penn Station, back for a sleep before the last night out in America - Bleecker Street we reckon for some live music - and the band in the Red Lion are good. They're not the rock style Dave and Rob in particular would like but their music is good to listen too. Will they be the next big hit? Who knows
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