Our last day in the US was spent ticking off the last couple of sights to see including a trip up the Empire State Building which once again allowed Manhattan to show off it’s photogenic best in the late Summer sunshine.
We were also able to spend a bit of time in some of the less touristy NY attractions including the Horological Society offices (A is big into his watches) which happened to be across the way from our hotel and was located on the third floor of a much more traditional high rise including a lift with a metal grate door and less high tech staircase than the ESB.
Also on the same road as our hotel was the Algonquin Hotel - a favoured watering hole for the likes of Dorothy Parker and other luminaries of the NY literary smartset during Prohibition-era America. A and I there enjoyed a couple of cocktails (which NY bar-tenders do very well although at remarkable expense) and a burger amongst the wise-cracking ghosts (as well as taking in some of the feedback from the recent Trump/Harris TV debate) before completing our packing for the trip to London.
I really enjoyed New York despite myself. It was definitely noisy (and had a distinctly “grassy” smell) but undoubtedly had a buzz about it and the Museums and art galleries were definitely on a par with London and Paris - we had managed a quick look around NY’s MOMA on our last afternoon and saw some excellent Dali, Picasso and Mondrian (the latter appeared to have been very much taken to the hearts of New Yorkers during his brief sojourn here during World War 2). Would very much like to return.
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