Sun 26/8 11652 steps
With the bike story almost at an end, we finally got to do the hop on hop off bus ride. The first guide was not great so we got off in Chinatown and walked to little Italy, which apparently is getting smaller by the day, as Chinatown is expanding. I did have a delicious Apple spritz (apple juice and prosecco) at a small Italian cafe instead my new regular cider. We did some shopping on Mulberry street and then walked to the Immigrant Museum, where we did their Irish family tour. You get to go into an original tenement building and listen to the story of actual people who lived there. It was very good and I thoroughly recommend it as opposed to the usual museums. I learnt a lot from our informative guide, an Catholic Irish descendent born in the Bronx, but in fact it was just a pleasure to hear him speak good English and to listen between the lines to what he didn’t say about the current immigrant policies.
We got back on the bus and completed the tour. We went to areas we had not yet walked through so it was interesting. Fun fact: apparently if you rub the gonads of the raging bull on Wall Street, it brings you financial good luck, so people actually queue up to do so.
We ended the evening at Arthurs in Greenwich, listening to a bunch of old geysers play really good jazz (thanks, Annie). I was particularly interested in the lady’s hairstyle, as I am considering going grey.
Chuckle of the day:
What I learnt: Maybe it is too soon to go grey.
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