Tales From The Big Apple Part 3 (part II)

Tuesday Part II

We finished our MacDonalds and left the warmth and welcoming smell of fast food behind aqs we ventured out into the cold chilling wind and rain that had now put itself in place of the nicer weather earlier on. We braved a walk into Battersea to take a couple of rainswept pictures of the Statue of Liberty and the nearby Ellis Island. Time to beat a retreat back into the shelter of the monstrous skyscrapers of Manhattan’s financial district but even their gigantic cover did not stop us getting slowly wetter. We saw our chance and bought a 2 ride Metrocard and dived into the subway – one swipe for my ride and a pass back to Mark for him to swipe the card again for the second ride. We entered the subway and realised that we hadn’t got much of a clue what line we had entered and a nearby couple of guys from Albany pointed us the right way. They were taking the same train so we passed a few minutes chat and said our goodbyes at Penn Station – bang opposite our hotel.

We were whacked and had decided to buy a couple of beers and put our feet up and call it a day in the hotel room. We had a little nap and caught our second wind. Despite seriously aching legs and feet (we had walked around 12 miles this morning already) we made ourselves a little route – back up to Times Square and beyond to 47^th Street and then across to second Avenue and down to the United Nations building. We got there some 2 mile later and wished we hadn’t bothered – the UN building was probably the biggest let down of our stay in New York. We set a route back to the hotel via the Chrysler building and the obligatory stop at Starbucks along the way (hot chocolate this time though – totally coffee’d out).

We couldn’t be bothered with eating out so we got some bread, ham, cheese and fruit and made our own sandwiches with enough left over for eats on the bus journey to Baltimore tomorrow. Legs and feet were now truly very sore and a soft bed soon beckoned and sent me off to dreamland zzzzzzzzz.

Wall St

Windswept Statue of Liberty

Long Way Up