Today was a little improvised, the objective for this morning was to go Times Square to fetch some Comedy tickets. We spent quite a lot of time to go from theatre to theatre to find reasonably priced tickets and we did...
Initially Nicolas was keen for all the shows except Mamma Mia! Guess what? Only Mamma Mia was keen with us... Nicolas had a quite a hard time to show his enthusiasm depiste Marie and I's attempts to entice him with our own renderings of ABBA classig songs...
The day continued with the visit of the Intrepid a decommissioned aircraft carrier that served during WWII and Vietnam to name a few wars... You can see this ship in I am Legend where Will Smith plays golf on the wing of an A12 jet plane We discovered life onboard a carrier and how cramped it is, not really 5 stars to say the least... The visit ended with a tour of a British Airways Concorde, very nice cockpit not sure the pilots has 2 arms only ^_^
For lunch, finally, after 7 days we managed to find a pizzeria with terrace but as the weather is cooling down, we were a bit cold but the pizzas were fantastic.
I don't think there are many explanations on how the streets of New York are working. Some people may find it surprising that "I" is giving a lesson on directions, so I will just translate Nicolas' explanation but nonetheless it is quite simple and I made some progress in that area, recently:
From north to south the city is crossed by avenues numbered from 1 to 12 and from east to west, the city is crossed by streets numbered from 1 to 190. There are therefore relatively easy to identify. The museum of the Intrepid is near the 42nd Street on 12th Avenue and we decided to take a look at the United Nations that are located near the 42nd Street on 1st Avenue. So we
completely crossed NY by its width.
Crossing the 42nd NY is a quite choice, but it allowed us to visit Grand Central Terminal, NY finest railway station, immense and magnificent. We also had a quick browse at the Chrysler Building, its hall is grandiose but unfortunately we were unable to go up. On the way we
stumbled on the Ford Foundation and its indoor zen garden and wish fountain.
At the end of of 42nd street were the United Nations, again Airport Style security, backbag checking... Unfortunaltely this fine establishment was closing quite early as a result we couldn't take the tour... We still took advantage of the exhibits in the hall, not the happiest ones:
- Damages of anti-personal mine on people;
- Testimonies of Rwandan refugees;
- Drums from Africa.
Then back to the hotel, shower and then we went to Queens to visit Nicolas' cousin Charlotte. Charlotte lives in Queens, Marie was not reassured to say the least due to bad previous experiences with Brooklyn. But we were soon surprised to discover how nice and safe Queens is. On arrival we had a guided tour flat, very nice and then tasted the magnum of rose wine Nicolas won during the session at Benoit.
A magnun later we went to a Greek restaurant next door for some chicken skewers without the skewers...
Back on the subway, Marie and I very happy thanks to the wonders of several Pina Colladas...
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