South Street Seaport...

Later on on Thursday we went down to South Street Seaport which is a lovely area down on the river, over looking Brooklyn - it's Pier 17, which you can see in all the famous pictures of the Manhattan Skyline (like in the beginning of Friends).

It's got lots of shops like Banana Republic, The Body Shop and Abercrombie and Fitch, it's got some yummy restaurants and bars and a little mall. It's also where the sea taxi goes from and some of the river cruises, some of which are on some rather grand boats (like the Pekin in the picture above).

This was a lovely ship named the Ambrose, I think it looks like a Popeye type boat.

The views across to Brooklyn are rather impressive...

The light was beautiful, it was that late afternoon/evening sun the casts wonderful shadow and makes everything look so picturesque.

We stopped off for a quick drink... that turned into a couple of drinks and a big plate of calamari and baby squid. It was lovely sitting outside in the sun, it was even warm enough to take our jackets off - amazing to think that it's pretty much December now.


After we'd had a wee rest, we made our way to the Brooklyn Bridge...