We are really into New York. It has so many of the things we like: Great food, great art, great transport options, lots of interesting bikes, everyone incredibly polite, whether they are elderly ladies dripping with gold in Madison Ave, or the lady in the subway ticket booth coping with idiotic questions while a huge queue built up behind us.
Even the the bad things aren't that bad. Yes it's a bit dirty, a bit smelly, VERY noisy. But other bits are like this:
Sticking to the formula of Doing Things We Like, we started the day by going uptown a few blocks on the subway to Zabar's, a Jewish deli for one of their lox and cream cheese bagels. Yum.
Then a stroll across Central Park via the John Lennon memorial to look at the Guggenheim (only the outside as we were saving our arty energy).
Next the Neue Galerie, which has German and Austrian Art from the early 1900s. Artists like Klimt and Scheile, their work is all about love, sex, death and spirituality. What else should art be about?
Back into Central Park for a sit down to give our legs and brains a rest...and a $1 hot dog.
Then a couple of hundred yards to The Frick gallery. The Frick is the house (mansion) of a wealthy New York robber baron, which was turned into a museum after he died. Wow, the stuff he bought - 3 Vermeers, 2 Holbeins, an enormous Rembrandt and scores of old masters. He had more great art in his dining room than most national museums have in their whole collections. A must-see.
I'm not a Rembrandt fan so I felt I deserved a treat after the Frick, next stop was Serendipity 3, a restaurant frequented by Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol etc. for their signature Frrrrozen Hot Chocolate. Jackie O once tried to buy the recipe but the owner refused.
Is it a coincidence that Andy Warhol died from his gall bladder?
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