A sleep in and a slower day on the cards today. On Ben and Amber's recommendation, we did the A Slice of Brooklyn Tour. Basically a pizza tour of Brooklyn. It was great to be on a bus and being run around for a change!!
We crossed the Manhatten Bridge and made tracks to the Brooklyn Bridge Park which gave us great views of not only the bridge, but the Manhattan skyline. It was a bloody gorgeous sunny day and the best day weather wise.
Brooklyn baby!! The accent is just fantabulous!!!
Our first stop was Grimaldis for thin crust margherita pizza: mozzarella, basil and tomato. Grimaldis has the only coal fired oven for cooking pizza left in the state. For mine, it needed the chilli input on it and it was not as good as the pizza we can get at home. However, what would I know? People queue around the block for this pizza.
The great part about the tour was the commentary as we drove along. To go along with the commentary were clips from different movies set in Brooklyn: Gangs of New York, the French Connection, Moonstruck, Goodfellas, Saturday Night Live and many more. It was a pretty schmick tour!!
We also saw the terminal where Elvis left for Europe.....a nice little bit of symmetry for when I go I Memphis later in in the trip....
Our next stop for pizza was L and B Spumoni for Sicilian style pizza. This was more to my liking. How I manged to eat two pieces of 'pie' at both venues and then back it up with Spumoni (kinda like gelato), is anyone's guess!! Luckily I'm travelling with Rick who is also an eater!!!!
Coney Island was next. And it was just as I imagined: slightly ratty and tacky, but fun. The guy who designed it also designed Melbourne's Luna Park.....another nice piece of symmetry!!
The tour ran for about four and a half hours and it was well worth it. Our guide, Paula, had lots of local knowledge and a wicked sense of humour!! But then, who can beat Rick's quote of the day: "I want to see a driveby shooting".....which he qualified with, "but I don't want anyone to get hurt".....
A free ride on the Staten Island Ferry gave as some great views of the Manhttan skyline and Lady Liberty. And we saw a great argument. Let it go people!
We the. Wandered back into mid-town to check out the "biggest store in the world" Macys. Pretty much just like Myer. I was tired an a little unimpressed. I was also unimpressed that I was such an idiot and took a NyQuil instead of a DayQuil. No idea how I did that, but fought through the sleepiness.
Wooden escalator at Macys....
We met two more of Rick's friends for dinner, this time two Spaniards. Dinner was at Eat Italy in the Flatiron District. Bloody awesome vegetarian fare tonight. And some bloody awesome red wine.
I'm going to miss NYC and her food, the people who talk to themselves in the streets, the yellow cabs, the nitrogen bottles on some streets (WTF???) and all of the madness and chaos of the city.
In relation to the glorious NYC, I will never fuggedaboutit......(see what I did there???)
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