Wednesday - walk downtown

Left: a lovely historical building in downtown

We started the day before 10am, which is not bad at all for us. Unfortunately, we jumped on the subway going in the wrong direction.


A kind woman explained the letters on each station, and that the N is an express, which we used to get downtown (near the action - uptown is the Bronx, as in nothing soft comes out of the Bronx).

Right: Going underground in the subway

We got out near the Woolworth building and Town Hall, so we wandered around there, going to Westfield shopping centre at the old twin towers site. The form is like the metal structure that was poking up after the towers went down.
The two big holes in the ground at the memorial are sobering, along with all the names of the people who died. There must have been around 400 firefighters, cops, and other service people in the list, which was a surprise. They put flowers in the names of people on their birthdays.
We got down to Battery Park on the waterfront, very nice views. Walked along until the boys got hungry and ended up at Lox cafe inside the Jewish Museum for some egg sandwich, a Borsch soup and a herring dish, all very good in my opinion, although we had to threaten the boys to eat it.




Left: streetscene in Brooklyn.









Right: Heading onto the Brooklyn bridge. Peds left, bike lane is on the right.












Left: One of the other bridges to Manhattan











Right: bike rider ahoy! Walkers jump to hop out of the bike lane.

Walked along further to the ferry but decided not to go on, and trained it to Brooklyn, so we could walk back over the bridge. The boys enjoyed that a lot. The bike riders must go totally mad while the tourists walk back and forth over their bike lane, generally unaware. We didn't realise until a guy was ringing his bell and did not move out of his lane, so we did.

Left: the wooden deck of the Brooklyn bridge

Right: the boys check out the traffic

Left: Louis dresses like the locals.

Finished with a pit stop on the way home at Union Square. Tonight Marie is out for a girls night with Alicia.



Note; I have many many photos, so decided to blog one day per post to put up as many as I could.