Day 11: New York: Sunday in Central Park - JFK Airport - Barcelona
The alarm sounds when it is 6:00 in the morning, at which time we remember that today is the day we will enjoy a Sunday in Central Park, although today is also our last day of the trip to New York in 11 days and we wanted to endure a little more in bed to be able to rest and enjoy unique views, and more taking into account that yesterday we practically went to bed when they were one In the early morning, after spending the day on Roosevelt Island in New York and at night go to see a Broadway show.
New York from our room
The perfect plan for a Sunday in Central Park We believe it happens to have a picnic in any of the areas of the park. It is something that we had been recommended and that was within those 100 things to see and do in New York, but that sincerely we do not feel like it too much and that although the day has dawned very clear, we have 3 ° although it seems that the sun He wants to look more and more strongly.
In a few minutes we plan a small change of plans that happens to walk around the city for a while and then approach to spend a Sunday in Central Park, but forgetting about the picnic and leaving the food for the center of New York, where we can be until 2 in the afternoon, at which time we will go to the airport to JFK, from where our flight leaves at 5: 20 in the afternoon, with which we will end this incredible trip to New York during Holy Week.
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We leave the Holiday Inn Times Square when it is practically 9 in the morning, approaching breakfast in our usual Dean and Deluca to go later to the Times Square area, where we were already a couple of days ago, but where we can not leave without saying goodbye and less a day like today that looks great.
Times Square in New York
We can not stop thinking about the "movie" that we find the city and is that as we have been saying since we arrived, any corner and any event reminds us of a scene from a movie. On many occasions, most of us, we would not know exactly which one, but we do know that they are scenes that we have already seen before, such as those typical of the city where taxis and police are seen, something very common here, but not Stop surprising us or at least get our attention.
Police in Times Square
New York Police Dept
Today surprisingly Times Square is practically empty, we imagine that you will have to see that the Easter holidays have already passed and that it is also soon, but we cannot deny that we love this loneliness and this being able to walk quietly, without having to dodge a lot people. This is perhaps the NY that we like the most, that we will surely remember when we are looking forward to returning, that we already know what will happen to us and surely it will not take much time to feel that call.
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From Times Square we continue our morning walk on Broadway, until we reach Central Park, today's destination, where today despite the cold it looks impressive and it is that with this sky so blue, the truth is that it looks completely different the first day that We saw, it was much more cloudy.
Sunday in Central Park
We decided that this Sunday in Central Park We enter into what is the central part of the park and the southern area, where we took the opportunity to explore some corners that we did not know last Sunday, when we came after the Gospel Mass in Harlem, touring the trails and discovering new corners that leave us a impressive image of the park and with which we can say that we have practically reconciled with Central park, since we were left with a bittersweet half flavor the other day, since the overcast sky and the delay of the arrival of spring make Central park At this time of year it does not look fully.
Walking a Sunday through Central Park
Central park
As we said on other occasions, bringing modifiable plans in New York is practically necessary if you want to enjoy the city at its best and that is that having visits that you can move during the day, you can modify them on a base, especially, at the same time. It is great to leave the museums for the last days of the trip, so for example if it rains, you can go to these visits and spend the day or hours of rain to shelter and taking advantage time. This also applies to the visit to Central Park, something that had happened to us the previous Sunday that we visited the park with the day a bit cloudy, leaving us a little bit of a picture poor of the place and that today we have seen totally different.
Sunday in Central Park
Stunning views from Central Park
We arrive to Central park when it is practically 10 in the morning and we already begin to see many people who walk through the different areas of the park that as the morning progresses they begin to look much more relaxed and that is that with the day it does there is nothing you want more than just relaxing in the lungs of New York and even facing the cold, having a picnic that turns the Sunday in Central Park In a day to remember.
A good option to not miss anything and get to know all the anecdotes of the park is to book this visit with a guide in Spanish or this tour through the series and movie stages that have been shot in Central Park.
Central park
Sunday in Central Park
We will ignore this point, not for lack of desire, but for having little time in the city and partly because of the cold. Without forgetting that as they say, you always have to leave something pending on the trips to have the possibility of returning, with much more desire. We here in New York have left several things pending, many of them for lack of time and many others aware that we will surely return to the city at some other time, preferably when it is not so cold, to enjoy it in full sun.
Central park
Hotel Plaza from Central Park
It's almost 12 in the morning when we head to The Mall, one of the most essential places to see in Central Park, where we wanted to approach before leaving and say goodbye to this Sunday in Central Park, which has been the perfect icing to finish what has been the most complete trip to New York we could have imagined, in which we have adapted that first version of the planning on what to see in New York by neighborhoods at the time and especially to the setbacks that always arise on trips.
Farewell to a Sunday in Central Park
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We leave Central Park to return to Fifth Avenue, which will take us for the last time to the Rockefeller Center area, where we cannot avoid making a stop and enjoy the views and places that gather in this area of the city, a essential in New York, which is probably one of the most visited places in the Big Apple.
Fifth Avenue New York
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From here and seeing that time is beginning to come, we approach Times Square where we find a Bubba Gump in which there is practically no queue. Being one of the restaurants we wanted to try in the city, after having been in the San Francisco, we don't think about it when they tell us that we can go directly to the dining room on the first floor where we go up and where after getting settled we ask for a combo of prawns plus ones pop corn of prawns with two special shakes and two coffees for 65 dollars that we tasted as the last meal that we will do here in New York, the city that never sleeps.
Eating at Bubba Gump
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If there is a place you should not miss in New York that in Bubba Gump. Despite being a tourist rather than a place, we have to say that the food is quite good, although we detected that the portions are smaller than a few years ago when we were in San Francisco. A part is a place to eat quietly, not as we did last night at Ellen's Stardust Diner, where we ran for not being able to practically withstand the volume of the songs, apart from the somewhat "overwhelming" environment for being eating directly next to People you don't know
What you have to keep in mind is that there is usually a lot of queue, so it is worth it to come with time and thus not get the surprise of having to wait an hour to eat lunch or dinner. In addition, from what we have seen there are many fewer people at lunchtime, so it can be a good alternative and leave this place for that time of day and not dinner, at which time there are many more people.
It takes a few minutes after 2:00 p.m. when we leave Bubba Gump and go straight to the Holiday Inn Times Square to pick up our ways and take the express line E from the subway to Central Jamaica, just as we did the day we arrived at New York, to catch the Air Train to Terminal 8 which is where thanks to American Airlines at 5:20 p.m. we will fly to Barcelona.
We arrived in JFK in just over 1 hour and 15 minutes, checking beforehand at Jamaica Station the balance of our Metrocard, since we must have a balance to pay for the trip. In our case we must recharge them with the amount necessary to pay for the Air Train, since the 7-day Metrocard expired yesterday and today we reuse the one we bought the day we arrived in New York, in this case recharging it with the precise amount for this Last trip in New York.
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Once in Terminal 8 we go directly through the registration machines of American Airlines and it is that as much as we have the checkin done, you have to go through the machines to enter your data, through the passport and collect the luggage tags that you they give directly to place in the suitcases that later you must leave in the luggage tapes.
With all this done, we pass the security check and in less than 45 minutes we are boarding the plane, which seems to be released, which will take us in just over 7 hours to Barcelona.
It's 5:30 pm when we take off on time and get lost in the incredible sky of the city that has welcomed us these last 11 days and to which we will surely return. While it's time to start dreaming about future trips.
