11,5 km step by step

So… here’s the thing… jetlag doesn’t choose… it just hits you. It doesn’t care that you just spent 20 hours travelling and that 5 hours of sleep might not be enough… no… it goes like “Hey Patrycja, time to get up, it’s already 10 am in WRO, don’t care it’s 5 am in NY” grrrr @#!!$%@#$& wrrr
We decided to take the best out of it…. Starbucks luckily opens at 5:30 am here ;) At 7am we were already out of the hotel and having breakfast. The best breakfast we could imagine for our first one in the US – pancakes with syrup. Yummy… and huge. Ok, and of we go…. Direction – Downtown Manhattan. Subway station is close so we on our way pretty quick. But… wrong subway. Surprise, surprise. We landed at the South Ferry. Turned out to be a pretty good mistake ;) We took the ferry to Staten Island and had our first opportunity to take some great shoots of the Manhattan and Statue of Liberty. And it was for free!
We came back and made our way towards the 9/11 Memorial via Broadway, stopping at the Charging Bull. The Memorial itself is just beautiful. But I won’t write much about it. It is a private thing in my opinion…. To understand what this City had to go through… and being there gives You a lot of those thoughts.
After a coffee break and some gossip talk, we hit the direction to Brooklyn Bridge. Besides… did I mentioned that we have Oct, 29th and we have about 25 degrees Celsius un the sun? So hot! Weather was just perfect. Nothing we expected in NY. So the walk was loooong. We got to the Brooklyn Bridge Park where we took the “Jump the World Session” (my dear FB Friends know what I mean). ;) We started to feel the 7km by foot in our feet…. And it was time for lunch anyways. Burger and fries of course, with the best view :) Check out the picture for it.
Back to Manhattan to see the Flatiron Building. And guess what – wrong subway…. Again. Which made us to walk 10 blocks back. The plan after that was to see the Grand Central Station, but passing the Empire State Building, we hit a bar to grab a beer…. And that was it for the day ;)

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