Woke up really early - my body still slightly on UK time, and also with a really persistent headache, made worse by knowing that I'd forgotten to bring Anadin. Had breadfast at the hotel. 'Steel Cut Irish Oats' - which, basically turned-out to be porridge, with sliced bananas and strawberries and a side-dish of crispy bacon washed down with coffee and orange juice. Glanced at the New York Times Sunday edition - outside my bedroom door courtesy of the hotel. Then headed straight out so I could get to the Metropolitan Museum as soon as it opened at 9.30am - though stopping off at a pharmacy to get headache tablets (the choice being irritatingly wide because obviously unregulated, with a random selection of tablet strengths - and I ended up choosing some that made my face go numb within 2 minutes but which certainly had the desired effect of killing-off the headache for the day). Beginning to get a feel for the size of Manhattan and the scale of the map I use - which, in this case meant giving up on my original plan to walk to the Met, and getting a taxi instead (it would have taken hours walking). The Met is absolutely enormous. I started with the Egyptian section, which contained vast numbers of mummies, statues, frescoes, whole tombs with enormous galleries to themselves. Then Medieval, Renaissance, right up to modern and contemporary. Kept getting lost. Lots of famous pictures, of course - Rembrandt self-portrait, Van Gogh self-portrait with straw hat, and irises, Caravaggios, vast numbers of Picassos. etc, plus lots of modern American - Jackson Pollock, etc - and Damien Hirst's 'The Impossibility, etc' - i.e. the pickled shark. Stopped off for a double-espresso in the American Wing cafe. (Strange thing I've notice is that no matter how nice a cafe, even if you're drinking 'in' they still serve all coffees in paper-cups). Other than that, kept going for 4 hours or so, in order to take advantage of being there. Afterwards, out into the gentle drizzle to walk through Central Park - kept getting a little disorientated. Then to Fifth Avenue, where I first of all noticed the mega Apple Store... which I'll tell you about in my next post.
Sunday, 28 March 2010
Sunday morning
Woke up really early - my body still slightly on UK time, and also with a really persistent headache, made worse by knowing that I'd forgotten to bring Anadin. Had breadfast at the hotel. 'Steel Cut Irish Oats' - which, basically turned-out to be porridge, with sliced bananas and strawberries and a side-dish of crispy bacon washed down with coffee and orange juice. Glanced at the New York Times Sunday edition - outside my bedroom door courtesy of the hotel. Then headed straight out so I could get to the Metropolitan Museum as soon as it opened at 9.30am - though stopping off at a pharmacy to get headache tablets (the choice being irritatingly wide because obviously unregulated, with a random selection of tablet strengths - and I ended up choosing some that made my face go numb within 2 minutes but which certainly had the desired effect of killing-off the headache for the day). Beginning to get a feel for the size of Manhattan and the scale of the map I use - which, in this case meant giving up on my original plan to walk to the Met, and getting a taxi instead (it would have taken hours walking). The Met is absolutely enormous. I started with the Egyptian section, which contained vast numbers of mummies, statues, frescoes, whole tombs with enormous galleries to themselves. Then Medieval, Renaissance, right up to modern and contemporary. Kept getting lost. Lots of famous pictures, of course - Rembrandt self-portrait, Van Gogh self-portrait with straw hat, and irises, Caravaggios, vast numbers of Picassos. etc, plus lots of modern American - Jackson Pollock, etc - and Damien Hirst's 'The Impossibility, etc' - i.e. the pickled shark. Stopped off for a double-espresso in the American Wing cafe. (Strange thing I've notice is that no matter how nice a cafe, even if you're drinking 'in' they still serve all coffees in paper-cups). Other than that, kept going for 4 hours or so, in order to take advantage of being there. Afterwards, out into the gentle drizzle to walk through Central Park - kept getting a little disorientated. Then to Fifth Avenue, where I first of all noticed the mega Apple Store... which I'll tell you about in my next post.
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