007 - sun 07/05/2006 - new york

i learnt very quickly while we were in new york that there were many things about the city that suz had learned solely by watching the entire series of sex and the city a few months prior to us leaving. suz rather proudly informed me actually that most of what she knew about new york she had learnt via tv and movies, and i guess thats probably true for most people (me included).

one thing suz knew about was 'sunday brunch.' the idea of having a late breakfast out on a sunday morning is not revolutionary, but in new york they do it with cocktails. we made our way to amsterdam avenue, on the upper west side, which was a pretty bustling street for brunch. between us we shared a mimosa and a bloody mary, and a couple of glasses of wine too. good morning!

we then stumbled into nearby central park, which was alive with new yorkers, who like us were taking advantage of a beautiful warm blue-sky day. it was pretty packed for a park, particularly some of the open lawns which were kind of astounding to see filled with so many picnickers, families, dogs. there were jazz buskers, lots of people riding bikes. is that hall & oates in the distance? whats this, a roller disco? yes! playing exclusively late-70s and 80s disco. it was great, but we left the dancing to the true roller disco professionals.

after central park we became determined to find the edge of manhattan, having only seen its insides so far (if you don't count what we saw from the air.) it was a long walk through the upper west side to find the hudson river. we could see new jersey on the opposite bank. we took a long walk along the hudson, and then caught the subway home. we grabbed some pizza from the pizza joint below the hotel - good stuff - and i had a root beer.

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