Most of the films set in New York City, see the main characters return to their favorite restaurant, and boy did we find ours; it’s a small corner store that sells the best BLT’s we’ve ever eaten. We ate two in one sitting! Another time, we ordered them to go, so we could eat the BLT as we made our way to Central Park, where we were going to meet-up with the New York Movie tour, where we’d be taken all over New York City and shown where all these famous places are, like Ghostbusters or Spiderman, etc.
As we made our way to the park, eating our delightful sandwiches, we noticed the park was filled with rollerbladers, cyclists, walkers, runners, sightseers and even a game of Cricket. Through our extensive studying up on Central Park, we knew the general history, like the park opened up in 1859 and attracts over 25 million visitors annually and the park is landscaped by man rather than being natural. There are several lakes, ponds, bridle paths, walking tracks, a swimming pool, which turns into an ice-skating rink in the winter, a zoo, a conservatory garden, a billion gallon reservoir with a running track encircling it, a wildlife sanctuary, an outdoor amphitheater where ‘Shakespeare in the Park’ is performed, and the park itself is appraised at well over 500 billion dollars (land value).
After our wonderful New York Movie tour, we headed back to our hotel, which we found on this US New York hotel website: http://www.hotelsnewyorkusa.com, when we were in Europe. It was it to watch a bit of television, shower and then head back out to take the subway to Brooklyn. We timed it so the sun was setting behind the Financial District, that was we could take some excellent pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge with Manhattan in the background at sunset! We found a pizza restaurant nearby the bridge and that was the best wedge of pizza we’d ever had! We devoured two whole slices each, then downed an American beer. See, now we really feel like true American’s: pizza and beer.