Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The Top Of My Head Feels Sore



The second day of our vacation starts Yorkers Early in the morning with a hearty breakfast made in a base of Starbucks cappuccino extra-large and mega muffin with chocolate, in short, a sufficient amount of calories for a week.
Start enjoying these mash: if you take them with due caution may be to swallow, and the medium diverenti litrozzo card remains in those big glass of boiling water for at least an hour so you can enjoy breakfast on the way for some time.
Small note: the Americans have completely dissolved the taste buds! Drink beverages with temperatures close to those of the molten core at the center of the earth and do not make a turn while I have to wait at least twenty minutes to sip a cup of tea and I still scot language. Archived
the first - breakfast you go on a short stroll in the middle west side, right up to the first stop of the meter useful because my goal for the morning is something else.
You fly over the East River to Brooklyn to visit!


I really like this neighborhood, you can still breathe real air: in the midst of these people (tourists included) in these alleys with houses all with this style from '50s film with the staircase that goes door Christmas wreath with red and green, the stairs to the basement or maybe the store complete with conveyer belt to pull out the boxes and the style of a period that is slowly disappearing from many places here and throughout the rest of the country American. It seems that here is really strong spirit of conservation architecture and urban spirit mixed with a marked expansion into tourism as wanting to dispute the lights of Manhattan: the result is a lively district local Within an atmosphere rather sober, serious, or almost only semblance respectable. We have no time to investigate, we should instead spend many days and plus we retrace our steps because someone (me) did not realize that the camera battery was close to the red yesterday and someone else (always me) did not think of bring along a second battery. The result was a change of program back to the hotel to retrieve the drain. Brooklyn will be waiting later to close the circle the day.
After several hours of travel has become jelly and decide to try one of the many places listed as authentic local made in us, what we see in a thousand films with the bar and tables under the windows overlooking the street, with the style of the old fast-food (the place of this "happy days"?). We choose a place in Soho and Tribeca, where it says you eat the best burgers and in fact the chunks of beef is excellent and the chips are supplied with adequate: it dips would also add that we avoid because we are not used to the weight of qusto type of meal We do not want to exaggerate ... but thinking about it now, how hungry!
After lunch we stroll through the neighborhood, rather famous for the old cast-iron buildings and plenty of local pubs and trendy does not seem to portray him as popular as tourist guides, will be the time or perhaps does not attract so much or the famous pubs have been replaced by others in other neighborhoods, something not uncommon in this city where everything evolves at breakneck speed. However, the architecture of the buildings is nice and think of the huge loft, once economic solutions for artists and now uprooted lussosissimi penthouses trend for owners who do not even imagine living in some ex-warehouse or brothel, after all is fun and we bighellonaggio enjoy this.

Frank Sinatra, The sunny side of the street
Grab your coat and snatch your hat, leave your worries on the doorstep.
Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.
Can not You Hear That That pitter pat and happy tune in your step.
Life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street.

We wander to the south-west across the broad avenues and we bring in constitutional decision-making center of the city dominated by huge government buildings in classical style: the town hall, the supreme court, the police headquarters .... then we change the area still are immersed in other architectural styles still differ.

We're back in the middle of the island, far to the south and Broadway on that lap the financial district and then cross to the north across Manhattan.
Here are a couple of beautiful Catholic churches: the one we visited on our first stay in NY while we see today, the Church of St. Paul, has recently and sadly became famous because it was the place of the lunch break of the hundreds of people, volunteers, police officers, firefighters, who were busy during the most recent black city, because a part of the church is dedicated to the memory with plaques and decorations, and military and civilian posts. In fact, when you exit the back of the chapel you find yourself in the small cemetery adjacent to and few meters away stands the empty hole left in place of twin towers.
I think it's best to use the feeling of indifference to us because it is just one of many tourist destinations, and perhaps even for politicians is an opportunity, or was, but only for people who live and breathe here is very understandable drama that have lived and I'd rather not be one that passes through here smiling and making snap a souvenir photo in front of someone else's empty.
approaching continue our tour at Battery Park for a fleeting walk in the park full of people, a salute to Lady Liberty that will support us in the middle of the bay and a thought of gratitude for having already visited on his time along with Ellis Island: really great visit, but only these two goals taken away all day because of travel by ferries and the huge queues and meticulous controls more than anywhere else in the world (metal detector, body scanner, searches and compressed air jets against the poisonous powder) .. .. In short, thanks but we have already given. Resume
the metro and go back to where it all started today: Brooklyn would expect for a last ride at sunset with a break at sunset to the little park that is located in the middle of Brooklyn Bridge and the less famous but still charming Manhattan Bridge.
From here you can enjoy a breathtaking view of the skyline, and almost sorry that is dark, but we run the bridge to cross the East River while the spectacle of colored lights that flushing us wraps.
The walk on the bridge to be less difficult than expected: the almost two kilometers are nice and the wind from the sea is muted, almost zero dall'intrico cables that support the masts and then we enjoy the city lights gradually intensify as we approach.
For now we can do is go back to the hotel ... really? there is nothing else to do? But no, no and here I play my second card face down: After a rest I say to my boyfriend "well-dressed doll that we go out, Broadway is waiting for us!" and bring it to a couple of blocks, right on the legendary street theater and enter the lobby of the Winter Garden Theater.


I expected more enthusiasm, I'm just a romantic or will be the surprise was not so well hidden ... however, I honest with the staff to have bought the right tickets via internet and then make us sit.
Since I had to do the "grandeur" I took the closest place I could find, and enjoy the show great, some difficulties to understand some jokes but all in all we understand everything and can laugh with knowledge of the facts when it's time.
The show is very well done and now I understand why these theaters have become so famous and objectives for those who want to be an actor in the States, where a show is on the bill for years and people see it too many times: the organization that emerges is perfect in every detail, have set up a machine that would continue even if players are missing, in short the show is holding the people and not the other way (as we say over here). The people sing and have fun and we let it carry - for the record I do not like musicals! subject only to "The Blues Brother's" but that is a power of nature, otherwise I have trouble with Grease, but this is a gift to my blonde so ... But in the end it is like to me and then to the theater is a totally different effect than the movie musical on TV.

Abba, Dancing Queen
're in the mood for a dance And When
you get the chance You are the dancing queen

Young and sweet, Only seventeen Dancing queen

Feel the beat from the tambourine You can dance
,
You can jive Having the time of your life
See That Girl, Watch That Scene
Diggin 'the dancing queen

The music ends with a big crescendo and we already know that it will become a part of the soundtrack that will accompany this incredible memories viaggietto, the lights go out, thank the actors.
We rise and we finish the day, this time in earnest, with a quick snack in a bar in front of the theater. Tomorrow we still have to discover a new New York.

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