Our last day in New York (☹️)… but we’re off to Italy (🍝🍦)

We checked out after breakfast and left our luggage at the hotel. We headed over to the Highline, a linear park on the old elevated railway. Although the wildflowers were well past their prime, there were still some blooming and the seed heads and autumn leaves were really beautiful.

We walked to the Chelsea end, then popped down and doubled back along the river to Little Island. This little park has a very cool design and more wonderful natural style plantings.

We crossed back to the old Nabisco factory which now houses the Chelsea market. We had Very Fresh Noodles for lunch, with a front row seat watching them make the noodles.

After lunch we still had a little bit of time before we needed to catch the bus to the airport so we wandered down to the West Village.

Our time had finally run out so it was back on the subway one last time. The airport bus stopped at Bryant Park just across from our hotel which was pretty convenient. We were especially glad about that when we saw the huge line of people at the next bus stop that couldn’t fit on the bus. Once at the airport everything went smoothly and we were on the plane ready to fly out as scheduled at 18:25. An hour later we were sitting on the plane with an indicator warning on one of the flaps keeping us on the ground. The pilot informed us they would need to turn power to the aircraft off and we all disembarked with an expected departure time of 20:30. Which became 21:45. G had to organise for his partner to ring the clients he was seeing the following afternoon and reschedule. We finally got airborne at 23:00.