Days 3 & 4 - New York & Washington DC

 Day 3 - New York 17.04.12

Our 2nd whole day in NY & a lovely hot, sunny one it is too. Lots to fit in today again, the feet have recovered from yesterday, we've had breakfast in a cafe & are raring to go!
First thing to do is to brave the subway for the first time & go down to South Ferry near the Statue of Liberty.
First we went to Ground Zero, the Americans sure know how to make a memorial, it's magnificent & a lovely tribute to all of the people who lost their lives in the Twin Towers.
Then we walked to Wall Street, China town & Little Italy for lunch in La Mela, Louise recommended it & we did have some very good meatballs with spaghetti, cheers Lou!
Afterward we walked through Greenwich Village, which I didn't rate very much, unless we went to the wrong part. It was very 'studenty' being by the Uni & seemed to be all bars with deals to encourage them to drink.
We'd walked quite a way from the South Ferry so jumped back on the subway to go on the boat to see the Statue of Liberty. It was lovely & the boat trip was great in the sunshine too.

After that we went back on the subway (3 times in 1 day!) to be met by a massive demo in Times Square about the American taxation system - we're not the only ones to complain!
The traffic was at a stand still, everyone honking their horns & so many Police, who seemed to be having a great time as it was a peaceful, if disruptive, protest. Another one off experience to chalk up.
We also went back to Times Square later when it was dark to do some filming & saw ourselves on a big screen, so we did the touristy thing & waved to ourselves while Roy filmed us!!!!!!!!!
This is what New York does to you!!!!! I will miss it when we move on but it's such a fast pace of life you couldn't keep it up for long.

Day 4 - New York / Washington DC

After a lovely breakfast in Fluffy's & packing we set off in a taxi cab (yellow of course!) to get the Megabus to Washington which cost us about $7 each for a 4 hour trip! Value for money - the taxi to get it cost more!
Anyway we had a lovely relaxing trip to DC & got a taxi to Hotel number 2 - The Americana.
Check it out on the web site if you have time, the hotel itself looks a bit tatty but the room is bigger than the other one, has a fridge, is cheaper & we get a complimentary continental breakfast every morning so it can't be bad!
Later we went for a walk down the road to a sports bar for some food & drink. There were loads of screens up on the walls, all blaring out every American sport you can imagine at full volume & the atmosphere was great! We had a pitcher of beer & NY strip steaks with fries & veg. Just what we needed!

No photos today as we haven't had time to upload them yet but we will tomorrow.

TTFN xxx