Brooklyn Bridge – 3 September

What better thing to do on a sunny Sunday afternoon in New York than walk across the Brooklyn Bridge?

We headed east from City Hall with Rich and Maisha and joined the throngs of people taking in the afternoon on the boardwalk over the traffic below – you get some pretty impressive views of the city (and even of Brroklyn) once you’re out over the East River.

We spent six hours or so propping up a bar in Brooklyn and tasting a number of fine local ales plus a very good whisky called Highland Park courtesy of a nice gent sat next to us who apparently hailed from Scotland a few generations back – honestly, nobody over here is actually from over here, which makes a kind of sense for a nation founded on immigrants, I guess. Anyway, I digress like crazy…

In the evening we made the walk back across the bridge to Manhattan, with the skyline lit up impressively.

I still can’t believe we live here…