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Playing chess in Bryant Park

On our last full day in New York, the boys were tired after walking around for most of the day and didn’t want to go back out to get something to eat (plus they’d both eaten burgers pretty late in the afternoon, so weren’t especially hungry), so my wife and I left them to their Youtube videos in the hotel room and went out as a couple. As our boys tend to be a little fussy with what they’ll eat, the world was now our oyster when it came to dining choices, but we couldn’t seem to find anything we fancied – it was either cafe’s and Pret a Manger type places, or the pricey touristy stuff around Times Square, so we ended up wandering down to Bryant Park where I took the photograph in today’s post.

In the end, we ate in the food-hall area of the Wholefoods Market across the road from the park on 6th Avenue, where we bought a box of whatever took our fancy from the buffet (it was priced by the pound) and then ate it while looking out over the park and watching the world go by. It was pretty nice actually.

FILM - Bryant Park chess

Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Ilford HP5+.

Taken on 28 May 2019