New York is fun!

We ended a busy day in Greenwich village for the evening, sat outside eating German and watching the world go by, girls in very high heels and some of those girls are boys! Then to the Village Vanguard, still going after 75 years of jazz. Down into an amazingly small and damp smelling basement that officially holds 123 people, we were there for doors open so got our tiny table all of 5 feet from the stage to see guitarist Bill Frisell with a trio incluging Eyvan Kang on viola,Frisell looked like a cheerful geography teacher and Kang. in a suit and tie like a Japanese businessman! A great show,folk,blues rock and pop based explorations - even a great development of the Beatles 'In my life'. Back past the crowds and fetish shops on the D train to find TV news crews crowding the street, we learnt from a live broadcast as we arrived that there had been an attack on two gay guys, one person caught and two being sought. Bad news but getting a lot of coverage. Over to Tess. up early and off early to Starbucks for shot chocolate and their yifi and then back to our little wedge shaped apartment for breakfast (we are still waking early due to the the me difference). Yesterday we took the subway to South Ferry and took the Sat ten. Island ferry to StatenIsland, ferry good indeed and free too. It also allowed me to do an animal rescue of a little green finch that was stuck the wrong side of the case at the Start ten Island terminal. After our lovely trip,twice past the Statue of Liberty & two looks at the incredible, hazy sky line we walked through the financial district and visited Trinity Church, founded in 16 something by a man from Birmingham who had a wife from Herefordshire! Having burnt down a coupe of times, the church is in the Gothic style now and very lovely with the most delightful Church yard full of old graves, flowers, birds and lively small children, surrounded by massive sky scrapers. In the grave yards I have noticed that all the children's stones (many) note not only the age in years but months and days. On to Central Park and by circle hire. Quite a scrum, with people touting carriage rides, cycle rickshaws and bike hire. A bit like being at a historic place in Eygypt, every one wants your business. We narrowly escape a cheap,but ropey bike hire and find a better establishment with modern bikes and off we go. Its a lovely, sunny day and Central Park is huge and surprisingly hilly. We share the road with mad lycra'wd fitness bikers shouting 'on yr right' people walking, running, pushing babies or wheel chairs, loads of people. on the grass lying about or playing, a lovely place. to spend some time.