Wauw et pakket program vi fik stablet på benene til vores første fulde dag i byernes by!
Vi startede med en lækker kaffe og croissant fra Hotel Plaza ved sydenden af Central Park, og herefter begyndte vi vores gåtur igennem parken.
Der var stadig massere af sne så parken så fantastisk ud. Der var fyldt med turister i starten, men vi fik hurtigt fundet en sti hvor der pludselig kun var folk med hunde og varmt løbetøj - og det var langt bedre!
Vi kom forbi "The Mall" og "The Bethesda Fountain", inden vi gik til udkanten af parken for at ende ved Guggenheim. Frokosten blev indtaget på Upper East Side - og var i virkeligheden en marrokansk brunch (som til gengæld smagte guddommeligt!).
Glade, varme og mætte, vendte vi snuden sydover igen, og tog denne gang turen langs 5th Avenue forbi The Met, og nu må jeg altså indrømme noget...
Når man er en lille smule Gossip Girl fan, så ramte turen i dag fuldstændig plet!
(Freja havde aldrig set det - og det rettede jeg straks op på da vi kom hjem samme aften)
Vi fortsatte ned til MoMa, hvor vi egentligt ville have været inde, men da det var lørdag var der simpelthen alt for mange mennesker, så vi gik i stedet en tur hen til Grand Central Station hvor vi fik flot udsigt af Chrysler bygningen.
Og det er ikke slut endnu!
Vores skema var nemlig ikke mere proppet end at da vi tilfældigvis spottede et offentligt bibliotek lige overfor Central Station, fik vi også lavet tid til en lille tur indenfor her :-)
Sidste stop for dagen var Times Square, men først passerede vi The Rockefeller Center.
Når jeg nu får remset alle de steder op som vi besøgte på én dag (og jeg har endda udeladt et par stykker), så er der altså ikke noget at sige til at vi var godt trætte sidst på eftermiddagen!
Times Square var ubeskriveligt kaotisk - en oplevelse, men ikke et sted man har lyst til at opholde sig for længe, og så var jeg egentligt skuffet over at The Flatiron Building var 100% (200%) dækket af lystavler...
Efter en varm kop the hjemme i lejligheden, fandt vi vej til en hyggeligt italiensk restaurant i East Village til en let, og meget sen aftensmad - det er skønt at kunne få rigtigt mad efter kl. 22.30 ;-)
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Wow a tight schedule we managed to make for ourselves for our first full day in NYC!
We started out with delicious coffee and croissant at Hotel Plaza at the south end of Central Park, which we then started to stroll through.
There was still plenty of snow so the park looked absolutely beautiful! It was however full of tourists, but we quickly managed to find a different path and all of a sudden we were surrounded by joggers and people walking their dogs.
We passed The Mall and The Bethesda Fountain before we went to the east side of the park until we reached Guggenheim. At this point it was definitely time for lunch, which we found in the Upper East Side - and it was actually more like a Moroccan brunch, but it was divine!
Happy, warm and full, we then turned back south, this time down 5th Avenue passing The Met, and now I must admit to something....
When you are a bit of a Gossip Girl fan, today's tour was just on point!
(Freja had never seen it before, so I made sure to change that later that evening)
We continued down to MoMa where we were planning to go in, but since it was Saturday there were just too many people, so instead, we went down to Grand Central Station where we also had a great view of The Chrysler Building on the way.
And it's not over yet!
Our schedule wasn't that tight so that we didn't have time for spontaneity, so when we just happened to walk by a public library across from Central Station, we had time to do a small tour inside :-)
Last stop of the day was Times Square, but first we went by The Rockefeller Center.
Now that I've gone through all these places we visited in just one day (and I even left a few out), it's easy to understand that we were completely exhausted by the end of the day!
Times Square was inexplicably chaotic - an experience, but not a place you would want to spend a lot of time, and honestly, I was quite disappointed that The Flatiron Building had been 100% (200%) covered in billboards...
After a hot cup of tea back in our NY home, we found a nice little Italian place in East Village for a light, and very late dinner - it really is quite nice to be able to get real food after 10.30pm ;-)
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