With accomodation now sorted, we dried off and decided it was time to start exploring properly. Thankfully, the rain held off as we took the ferry past the Statue of Liberty and then went to check out Ground Zero, which is still just a building site. The Museum of Modern Art has free entry on a Friday afternoon so we braved the queues to see their impressive collection that includes Picasso, Van Gogh and Warhol. We eventually tracked down a bar to have some food and a couple of Bud Lights before our lack of sleep caught up with us and we headed back for an early night. The next day it was sunny so we had a much more pleasant exploration of Central Park than our first experience. We spent most of the day being
... read more