New York New York

Just the small matter of spending the weekend in New York!

Vicky and I drove up and stayed in a hotel in New Jersey.

www.themadisonhotel.com

The hotel is about an hours train ride away from the centre of New York.

First off, we visited Bevedere Castle,which is right in the centre of Central Park

Afterwards, we walked, AND walked, we could NOT get a taxi, no amount of flagging any down helped :(

On one of the streets, we noticed this sign!  It must be a regular occurrence around here.


I took my Wife to Tiffany's but she came away with no new jewellery, and we saw the real Tiffany Diamond. 


For dinner, we stopped in an Irish pub called the Pig 'N' Whistle, and I find out later that my cousin Andrea has also had drinks here as well.

For our evenings entertainment we took in what was to be the first of two Broadway shows.  Friday night we saw Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon in GRACE.  A dark comedy.  It was excellent, and better still, we saw Paul Rudd exit the stage door, and Vicky was able to get his autograph!

Saturday we started early and our first trip was to the Empire State Building.

We scored with the weather, it was a beautiful clear day.

Saturday afternoon, we saw our second Broadway show, and it was only The Phantom of the Opera!
The production was amazing, and I loved it.

You can not go to New York without eating NY Pizzz, so Vicky and I took the subway to Little Italy and we stumbled upon the annual  San Gennaro festival.  The streets were packed with food stalls. And it was a lot of fun seeing what was going on.

Around a corner we found a restaurant called Sals.

http://salslittleitaly.com/

And here it is!

Having been in New York last year, I knew how busy it can be, but this trip felt like Eldon Square on Christmas Eve!  The one taxi we managed to get into, that was hairy, I can not understand why I saw no cars collide, or hit anyone!  There is so much more to do, and I can't wait until I go back again.




I will post more pictures in the next update.