NYC Day Eleven Sunday 7th October 2012

This morning we had a walk around the shops near our hotel, Old Navy, and Macy's, we got a Christmas Bauble with Macy's on it, went to D,Autio, a bakery I had read about and shared an apple fritter from there sat on the steps of the Post office Building.

I wanted to go back and see some more of Chinatown, and try those dumplings, it was very wet though so we ended up going into a restaurant for lunch, still managed to have the dumplings though just not takeaway ones, we went into Joe's Ginger, chose at random as it was pouring with rain and all the ones I had on my list had long lines, the food was nice and plentiful, the service fine.

For afters we went to the Chinatown ice cream Factory, Carl had Lychee and I had Pistachio flavours, the rain had eased off so we walked along Canal street, lots of people trying to get me to follow them to designer fake bags and whispering Rolex at Carl, I was glad when we were through that bit, headed up Elizabeth Street and got the subway back to Herald Square for a rest, tonight we were going to City Island in the Bronx for another concert, had the weather been nice we were going to go early but it was dark and wet and windy out, I made us leave early in case of maintenance on the subway, after what had happened the night before I wanted to arrive in good time. We got the train to Times Square, Shuttle to Grand Central and on the 6 train uptown all the way to Pelham Bay Park, instructions were to then get on the number 29 bus to City Island, silly me did not think to check if it was a circular route, we got on the first 29 that came along and when the driver arrived at a big out of town shopping place he shouted "end of the line" whoops, we were at Co-op City, not too big a problem though, the driver was very helpful and gave us a transfer card although I don't think we needed it with our metrocards being unlimited, and gave us directions on where to get the 29 again going in the right direction, it was a long wait for the bus though and again only just got to the concert in time. 

The Uptown Coffeehouse is held in a community hall that is part of the Maritime Museum on City Island, it is a series of music events run by volunteers with coffee and cookies, we saw a singer-songwriter called Drew Nelson from Michigan, he had been to the UK on tour and we found out we had some mutual friends, the turn out at this event was not good so there was only around 15 of us there, Drew made comments to us during the second half and told some stories of his last visit to the UK. It was a lovely evening and finished quite early, we went back out into the rain and back to the bus stop, the correct side of the road! A bus came straight away and within fifiteen minutes we were back on the subway heading back to Manhattan, we were both feeling a bit peckish but did not want much so with a change on the subway I took us to the 72nd Street Station near Grays Papaya and we had a recession special $4.75 for two dogs with the works and a papaya drink before heading back to the hotel to bed.