New York - Brooklyn, Financial District, Battery Park & Daisy May's BBQ

29,880 steps today...all good fun!


Today we ventured across to Brooklyn...visiting the Brooklyn Flea Market. We had been last year and it was pretty cool...still is. The market is held in an old bank and the old bars and vaults with huge doors remain - just with loads of stalls now.

After a look-see and some food, hot dog, brisket, we headed back towards Manhattan, stopping to look at Manhattan's buildings at Brooklyn Heights. The view back across the East River is class.

Nearby, we checked out a brilliant, fenced dog enclosure where dogs can run and play with other dogs from the are. Very funny to watch the dogs having a laugh with each other.

Onwards to the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge. Both very cool bridges. Style and practicality, exactly what you need in a bridge.

We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, something we have done on every trip and this is always really interesting. Again, some superb views of Manhattan from the bridge.

Some new buildings are going up at Ground Zero. Sure, there's a debate about it all but for me, it's good that the New Yorkers are acknowledging those who died on 9-11 but it's also good to see them giving the terrorists the big finger by building some new, and it has to be said, stylish buildings. Fair play to them, I say.

Battery Park is just down the road and after a hot chocolate at Starbucks Bowling Green, quite nice too I must say...we then walked back up the promenade at Battery Park, alongside the Hudson River.

Finally for the evening we went for a great meal at Daisy May's BBQ. We went last year and for me, the BBQ is bloody good. Very tasty, filling and not too bad pricewise all in all. Really good.