A wet day in New York. Breakfast is eggs, potato hash and bacon at the diner with toast, grape jelly and lots of coffee.
We walk to the Museum of Modern Art and join the long queue of damp people for entry. “Waiting in line” is well organised and the line moves quickly. We get a discount for being old. Then we join the line to check our backpack and umbrellas.
The art is worth the wait. Monet, Manet, Cezanne. Wall-to-wall Picasso. Rothko, Warhol, Man Ray. Lots of Lautrec posters. The lunch line is long, so we just grab a coffee to keep going. We take regular sit-down stops.
We head off for a late lunch at the famous Carnegie Deli. We go for the famous Reuben sandwich to share ($29) and a couple of beers. The sandwich is a huge pile of hot pastrami on bread covered with sauerkraut and melted cheese. The place is packed and we chat to the people next to us – two New Yorkers and a dad and daughter from Arizona.
We stagger back to the hotel. We stop on the way at the ticket booth in Times Square and get half-price tickets to This is our Youth.
A rest at the hotel, then change and walk the couple of blocks to the Cort Theatre, a charming old theatre near Broadway. The play is a (revived) comedy set in 1982 in New York about a couple of young guys and a girl, their love lives and their problems. It proves to be extremely funny. The young audience loves it and gets a few of the New York jokes that we don’t.
Big day. PS. Bought new camera Olympus OM-D EM10.
Hi John. I cannot contact Norman and Marella in NY because they are on a cargo ship coming back to New York!!! They should have arrived by now, so I will keep trying. How many more days are you in the Big Apple?
I love your blog. Chris sent me your link. By the way Chris is thinking of joining Viv and coming to visit us in Spain next summer, that will be good. Gee