I LOVE american breakfasts, every morning it was a hard decision, eggs, pancakes, bagels or all 3!
& one slightly different breakfast at the famous Katz deli, a knish, pastrami on rye with pickles and a chocolate New York egg cream.
We stayed right next to Central Park
which is next to the MET, the Met, the Met, the Met I still can't quite believe just how many of my favourite art works are housed there.
I walked and walked and walked and just soaked up the atmosphere (I did keep feel like I was in a movie most of the time)
when we couldn't walk any more we tackled the subway (I just about got the hang of it)
& a quick trip on the Staten Island ferry, very early one morning.
We ate such good food and drank a few too many cocktails.
We hung out in Brooklyn.
& we shopped & shopped & shopped (I will have to photograph a few of my best finds, pity we couldn't fit these chairs in our suitcase at just $10 each)
& last but definitely not least I visited Christopher Robins original toys, that A.A. Milne showed to E.H. Shepherd before he illustrated Winnie The Pooh. Isn't little piglet cute. you can read about them here I especially like this bit....
Sadly Roo is one of the original toys that has not been preserved. His disappearance was described by A.A. Milne in the birth certificate; "Roo is believed to be somewhere in Sussex, but no details are available. A subsequent dog who became part of the establishment, took him for a walk once and left him in a hollow tree, from which he was extracted a year later. But the spirit of adventure was now strong upon him and soon afterwards he was off again, whether or not with the co-operation of the dog this time is not known".
