Finally New Yorkers

Today Julia and I were on our own, as Nancy went back to work. We started the day off with renting bikes and going to Central Park.


Our breakfast was truly New Yorkish: a bagel and a coffee, eaten while sitting on the grass in Central Park. We bought our coffe from a charming café that claimed to be the first espresso bar in New York. We sincerely doubted that, and later got our suspicions confirmed: The first espresso bar in New York (and North America) is apparently in Little Italy.


Central park is very large, in case you didn´t know, but you can still see the city surrounding it:


Bicycling through the park was great fun, at least when we understood where you may, and where you may not, use your bicycle. We were told by a very nice parkguard, who also told us we were the most beautiful women he had seen. That made our day.

Of course we also had to visit the met, situated on the outskirts of the park. As this museum is very large, we only got to see a small part of it. It was great! The museum has a very interesting admission: it´s suggested. I paid $10, but could in theory paid only $1. I figured this would be mo good deed for the day.

The best part of the museum was the picture described below:


As we spent most of our day in a park, I will not go into details, just share a few sightings:


A man playing his sax


A bush in the shape of a horse


The lake in the middle of the park. The park also has a castle, the "Belvedere Castle". I think this castlething is more exciting when you´re not from a country that actually has a royal family.

When we were done in Central Park, we delivered our bicycles. All this traveling from one spot to another might seem like an everyday, boring thing not worth noticing. It is not. The "getting to places" actually means that we succeeded finding our way on our own!) around New York. New Yorkers, you said? I think so!

We had dinner at The Modern tonight, a restaurant situated in the Modern Museum of Arts.

As you can see, it has a star in the Michelin guide (as has 41 other restaurants in NY, from one to three!). The star is well earned, and the dinner was delicious! On our way home for the night we saw two cockroaches on the street. This was my first cockroach sighting. I then realized I am not so "New York" after all.