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After a good night's sleep, we got up early and breakfasted in the hotel, catching up with some of the rest of the tour group from yesterday, including a couple called Jo and Sean from Suffolk. We decided to go on a tour of the lower east side, taking in some of the sights we'd seen the day before from the high line. We started at Chelsea Market, where A picked up a few presents for people back home and we checked out some of the food places.
After the market, we walked through along 14th to Union Square and then walked through Greenwich Village, pausing in Washington Square Park to put away some cold drinks and to listen to a man playing Chopin, Liszt, and Debussy on the piano. On our way through, we posed in front of the fountain:
On the way back, we stopped and picked up some takeaway lunch from Murray's Cheese Bar — an aladdin's cave of dairy products, with a deli bar so extensive, I rued the lack of a panoramic mode on my phone:
The cheese cave in the back was a particular delight, with the sign outside making mention of Berkswell, my parents' local cheese — not something I expected to find a thousand miles from home...
Walking north we stopped in Christopher Street and ate our lunch by the
After the market, we walked through along 14th to Union Square and then walked through Greenwich Village, pausing in Washington Square Park to put away some cold drinks and to listen to a man playing Chopin, Liszt, and Debussy on the piano. On our way through, we posed in front of the fountain:
On the way back, we stopped and picked up some takeaway lunch from Murray's Cheese Bar — an aladdin's cave of dairy products, with a deli bar so extensive, I rued the lack of a panoramic mode on my phone:
The cheese cave in the back was a particular delight, with the sign outside making mention of Berkswell, my parents' local cheese — not something I expected to find a thousand miles from home...
Walking north we stopped in Christopher Street and ate our lunch by the
