Tuesday 20 November 2012

Midtown day

Unfortunately, this is our last full day here so we are planning on taking it easy. We caught the subway downtown to 34th street to go into Madison Square Park (not garden that's the home of the Knicks & an arena like the O2) & had a look at the Flatiron building then had some lunch in the park from the Shake Shack. It's called the Shake Shack for a reason, you place your order & they give what looks like a TV remote control, when your order is ready this thing starts to shake & your number comes up on it. There are some wonderful buildings around there & you do get one of the best views
of the Empire State Building along that road on the South side not to mention the Chrysler Building. So now we are back on the subway again to only go a short distance to Herald Square & stopped for a coffee then it was round into Macy's the iconic overpriced shop. We were looking for a small rucksack type of thing because by now we had run out of luggage space but for 120 bucks for a small bag, we went elsewhere, one good thing is they have super-fast free Wi-Fi so we made good use of that & left. This area is quite vibrant, there's plenty of shops around here that sell everything for the tourist so a bit more buying for others & something for ourselves then we were on the subway back to the hotel for a bit as we were planning on going out for our last meal in this wonderful city at Langans. Then our last mooch round Time Square for some replica model vehicles from the city. With that done it was time to say goodbye to Time Square & head back to try & fit everything in our bags & maybe get some sleep for what would turn out to be a very long day.