Before we went, I made of big long list of all the things I wanted to do in New York. I think we ticked off about 2 of them. That’s not to say we didn’t have a wonderful time and that we didn’t find brilliant things to do – we did – it’s just that New York has a way of getting involved and messing up your plans!
We arrived on Wednesday afternoon to sunshine and lovely warm weather. The drive into the city was fine, and after we’d checked in we set about finding food. Carnegie’s deli/diner did the trick, serving up a lovely chicken noodle soup, a cheese burger and a corned beef sandwich the size of my head. Luckily we were sharing! We followed that with cocktails (Cosmo, natch) in the hotel bar and an early night. After an obligatory shot in Times Square, obvs.
Thursday dawned bright and even sunnier, so we ditched the heavy coats and set out for a walk. We had lunch plans with a friend, so decided to take a slow walk from Times Square down to the West Village, along the High Line, via a bagel shop for the best cream cheese and lox bagel I’ve ever had. It was glorious, and on leaving the High Line we stopped for coffee and for a handbag at Kate Spade!
After another coffee stop a bit further along we found our lunch venue – The Ear Inn on Spring Street and had a great lunch with our old friend and colleague Tim. Two hours flew by, with so much to catch up on and before we knew it we were walking him back to work and heading off to the East Village to see if we could get an appointment at New York Adorned.
We were in luck and booked for Friday, to get a small 10th wedding anniversary tattoo. We then wheedled our way back through the Village, via beers and chips n guac outside a Mexican restaurant, before getting a cab back to the hotel.
I reckon we walked about 15km all in all, and we absolutely wore ourselves out. So much so that it was a struggle to go out for dinner. Luckily we found a fairly decent looking Japanese Ramen bar nearby and it turned out they did a pretty good Katsu curry and Ramen, which we shared, before heading back to the hotel for a couple of nightcaps.