Day 40 - New York, New York, USA

Day 40 – 18th July 2005 -5:00 GMT

First thing we had to do this morning is move the car as they sweep each street on different day, so drove round for 30 minutes trying to find somewhere to park and ended up waiting in our car for an additional 30 minutes until we were allowed to park on the street again. Got the subway downtown to Fulton Street where we got a bite to eat and visited the site of the world trade centre,


The World Trade Centre Site 


Sculpture From the Twin Towers 

They are now going to build a 1776ft high building here called the freedom tower. We then walked over to battery park and took a circle line ferry trip around the harbour,


Me on the Circle Line Ferry 

It took us up the coast of Manhatten then past New Jersey, Ellis Island, Liberty Island,


The Statue Of Liberty 

Governor’s Island and then under the Brooklyn Bridge and back to port, It was brilliantly narrated.


Downtown Manhatten 


Manhatten 

We then walked up Broadway


1 Broadway 

and along Wall Street looking at Trinity Church and the New York Stock Exchange,


New York Stock Exchange 

We then walked around the Federal Reserve Bank and down to South Street Port we stopped at a pub for a drink and Jill and I tried the sampler, which is 10 5oz glasses of all their special beers.


Me with my Beer Samples 

When we got up to go the lady’s at the bar next to us offered to buy us another drink so we stayed for one more. We then looked around the shopping mall and the Brooklyn Bridge. Then we went out to dinner and caught the subway back to the hostel.