Overcome the day of the second and we have dedicated a large part of the American relatives of Anna Louise, the third day, Monday, the initiative aims rights to the skating rink at Rockefeller center. On their website it says that it is less crowded this time of the week to enjoy the track. The opening is at 8:30, we are there in advance and make peace with breakfast in one of the shops inside the mall, overlooking the track.
When we arrived on the track, do not find it strangely empty, as we expected, but there is a lone skater trying different figures. Plus there are headlight fixed on the professional track, and we wonder who the skater and what they are doing. After lunch, while Anna Luisa goes around shops to go shopping, I buy a ticket to enter the mythical Ice skating rink . Inside you can rent skates if you have not already provided. There is still a few people and within minutes are on track trying not to make sensational tumbles, there is always lots of people watching cuoriosa track topped by the legendary Christmas tree. Slowly I take confidence roller skating and ice and I do my track strolls. I will not be a champion, but I enjoy it. After a while, 'we are being asked to leave the track at the moment. I'm going to get answers to questions in the morning. In fact, light up the cameras to interview the mysterious skater. Curious, I ask who he is. And 'no other than Brian Boitano, the first American performer and inventor of the triple axel, a figure of its own, the Tano triple lutz, as well as world champion in the 80s. In short, a pretty good skater! After the interview gives us a taste of his talent boobies notes of a Christmas song.
After an hour I meet again con Anna Luisa che è tornata in hotel per posare gli acquisti fatti e visto che anche oggi è una giornata bellissima, fredda ma con un bel Sole e cielo azzurro, ci incamminiamo verso nord, sulla Madison per altro shopping. Da qui raggiungiamo facilmente Central park. L'avevamo visto d'estate, tutto verde, pieno di gente che correva o faceva altri sport, o che semplicemente stava sdraiata sul prato a leggere, studiare o a godersi un bambino piccolo o semplicemente a passeggiare o remare sulle barchette nei vari laghetti che ci sono; lo troviamo in versione autunnale, spoglio, con poca gente, romantico e piacevole. I laghetti stanno ghiacciando, gli scoiattoli fanno riserva di cibo, come gli uccellini. Questo parco è incredibile, coming here is like being in another world. NYC is also this: a chaotic city, fast-moving, almost frenetic, where it is possible to have moments of complete relaxation and full of quiet and romantic.
continue our walk up when we meet the famous around the carriages that bring people to the park. It 's the sign that we are almost in the south of the park. Here is another very popular skating rink.
are the 15, after leaving the purchases made in a nearby hotel, get tickets to an attraction that already abbiamoconosciuto well during our previous visit, but we definitely repeat and recommend everyone to do: get on top of the rock, the peak Rokefeller overview of the center. The day is clear, even if the view south is not perfect because of some 'haze on the backlight of the Sun coming down.
After security checks, the movie tells the story of the famous American billionaire, we enter the fast lift between blue and red lights, we sling in a few seconds to 67 th floor, one of three where you can go (the other two are 69 ° and 70 °) to see NY. Here's the view from the top of skyscrapers, more beautiful, even better than what you can enjoy the Empire State Building from here You can view and overlooking the Manhattan skyline to the south, while to the north you can see all of Central Park and the suburbs. A 360 degree view of the big apple here give you unforgettable emotions. I recommend getting an hour before sunset and enjoy the whole show until after sunset, when the city lights of his infinite lights. A breathtaking spectacle. It is very cold, sometimes we go out to see the change of scenery before returning to the warmth, indoors.
are now almost 17:30, it is already dark when we go down and we head to Union Square . Here is indeed a great food market, the Greenmarket (Monday, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays), with all the local producers exhibiting their products (for a complete list of markets in New York, you can see HERE ), but this time there is also a Christmas gift market, where it is You can buy gifts for Christmas.
Let us return then to the hotel to prepare for the evening. In fact we have booked on opentable , well in advance, a dinner at the restaurant The wiew Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square. The uniqueness of this restaurant that sits atop the modern hotel is that it is a revolving restaurant. Very slowly the tables placed on this great turning circle and you can admire the surrounding landscape at 360 ° during the meal. This is a good restaurant, where an evening and comfortable. Very cold outside, it's late and take a taxi back to hotel.
Fabio
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