{"id":227,"date":"2008-05-20T09:53:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T14:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-01-16T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T01:27:11","slug":"new-york-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/new-york-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New York - Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Day 2 started late, and we went to the famous Dining Concourse in Grand Central Station for lunch - or, seeing as I'd managed to pick up a nasty and painful sore throat a few days before leaving, a soothing smoothie.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> is on east side of Central Park, near the famous reservoir. The outlook of the day was a little bleak<\/a>, but still impressive.<\/p>\n

Entry to the museum is by donation, and you can pay as much or as little as you like. However, we didn't know you actually did have to pay something<\/em>, because we pretty much just walked right in! Apart from the standard wing of paintings, the museum has a lot of interior design, sculpture, armoury, musical instruments, and other forms of art. I spent a lot of time looking for the unicorn tapestries<\/a>, having seen copies being traditionally made at Stirling Castle last year<\/a>. I eventually found out that these were at the Cloisters, a gallery of medieval art we would have to see another day.<\/p>\n

Personal highlights of the Met:<\/p>\n