We arrived safely in NYC after our train had been cancelled through floods. Our Greyhound got us into town sooner and we found our cute apartment in E35th Street, in the shadow of the Empire State Building. On Friday we went to Ground Zero, as a choral marathon was on at Trinity Wall Street and St Paul's Cahpel (right at Ground Zero). We heard some great music and placed a remembrance ribbon in the St Paul's historic graveyard then decided it was too busy to stay in that area for lunch, so popped over to Brooklyn and took pot luck at any old neighbourhood, ending up with the best falafel we've ever tasted! Forgot to say that, on the Thursday night, we went to the musical "Follies" and LOVED it. The ideal intro to Broadway. On Friday night we dined in the lush apartment of friends John and Vicky Wion, overlooking the Hudson. Was great to catch up(Vicky recreated Balanchine's ballets and even married an Australian flute player.) We have become expert on the buses and subway (so far) and had a very musical Sunday - wonderful cello and organ recitals while police cars whizzing here and there to keep the terrorist at bay provided background accompaniment. Tonight we see a version of Macbeth in a warehouse, where the audience follows the action around 100 rooms. Can't imagine how it's going to work!
We have had NO SUCCESS with accessing emails on our Kindles, so have no idea how things are going at home. Once we are in Tennessee we'll be more accesible. Great to hear from Richard among others. Hope all is going well with Jeremy , Zoe et al and Ben and of course Bea and Bonnie.
Lots of love to all
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Eating middle eastern type food in the middle of a terrorist riden city can only be described as brave. In the Australian part of America we have had an over load of 9/11 memorials,we have relived the day more than several times. so much so we stopped watching television. the conclusion we came to was, that the only subject not covered was children NOT born because of the attack. We are still waiting for the bombing of Bagdad memorialand a mass reading of all dead in Iraque and Afganistan.
Mean while GG is still on a drip at the vets,some thing to do with an auto-immune liver thing. Dutch-Care is in lockdown with gastro but Pietrtje is OK.
Darlings Keep up the fun! F&L
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