We slept okay, but woke early. My phone beeped with a message from my Mum & Dad asking if we were okay as they'd heard there was somekind of accident in New York. We hadn't heard anything so we switched the TV on to see reports of a crane collapsing on the East Side somewhere. I gave M&D a quick call to reassure them we were fine and we left the hotel to head for the nearest subway station.
Eventually, with the help of the woman in the ticket office we managed to buy a couple of tickets from the machine and got on a subway train heading the wrong way... We got off at the next stop and caught one going the right way, towards Battery park, where we were going to catch the ferry to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
Once we were there, we joined a queue, went through security checks and finally boarded the ferry.
We alighted at Liberty Island and joined the queue to go up the plinth on the Statue of Liberty. After more security checks we walked through quite an interesting museum and then climbed up the plinth.
At the top, you get some interesting views up inside the statue so that you can see the metal structure and the stairs that you used to be able to climb to the crown.
From there we had something to eat and then caught the ferry to Ellis Island.
Ellis Island used to be the immigration processing place and now is a museum dedicated to all the immigrants. We had an audio tour which was really good and quite emotional at times as the immigrants themselves told their stories.
From there we caught the ferry back to NY and then walked up to the South Street Seaport, a collection of shops and cafés on one of the piers. From there we walked to Chinatown and Little Italy looking for somewhere to eat.
Eventually we found a veggie restaurant in Chinatown called the House of Vegetarian. We had a selection of dishes, which were huge! We didn't eat more than about half of each dish, but they were quite nice, especially one called braised broccoli in brown sauce..
From there, we walked back to the hotel, through SoHo, Bolita, NoHo, and Gramercy stopping at a bar on the way where Alicea had what she said was the best g&t she had ever had!
From there, we walked back to our hotel.
Eventually, with the help of the woman in the ticket office we managed to buy a couple of tickets from the machine and got on a subway train heading the wrong way... We got off at the next stop and caught one going the right way, towards Battery park, where we were going to catch the ferry to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
Once we were there, we joined a queue, went through security checks and finally boarded the ferry.
We alighted at Liberty Island and joined the queue to go up the plinth on the Statue of Liberty. After more security checks we walked through quite an interesting museum and then climbed up the plinth.
At the top, you get some interesting views up inside the statue so that you can see the metal structure and the stairs that you used to be able to climb to the crown.
From there we had something to eat and then caught the ferry to Ellis Island.
Ellis Island used to be the immigration processing place and now is a museum dedicated to all the immigrants. We had an audio tour which was really good and quite emotional at times as the immigrants themselves told their stories.
From there we caught the ferry back to NY and then walked up to the South Street Seaport, a collection of shops and cafés on one of the piers. From there we walked to Chinatown and Little Italy looking for somewhere to eat.
Eventually we found a veggie restaurant in Chinatown called the House of Vegetarian. We had a selection of dishes, which were huge! We didn't eat more than about half of each dish, but they were quite nice, especially one called braised broccoli in brown sauce..
From there, we walked back to the hotel, through SoHo, Bolita, NoHo, and Gramercy stopping at a bar on the way where Alicea had what she said was the best g&t she had ever had!
From there, we walked back to our hotel.
