We carried kagouls around for 8 weeks and six days without needing them. Beloved heroically carried a backpack with them round everywhere. On Friday the BBC forecast rain for New York. He took the backpack and we hunkered in the Metropolitan Museum of Art to avoid it not a drop. On Saturday they forecast a 30% possiblity of rain after 9pm when we would be well in the airport so we packed them in our hold baggage and left it in the storage room at the Hotel. We went looking for an ATM and some kind policemen directed us to the Rockerfeller Centre which has a big below ground Mall. When we came up a deluge had started. We scuppered our plans for the Frick collection and decided on a very long leisurely lunch at the expensive restaurant in the Centre which sadly only proved that you can pay several limbs for American Food and it is still horrible and tasteless.
The Rockerfeller Centre itself is a wonderful Art Deco complex built between 1930 and 1939. There are several buildings , the underground mall ,
shops, offices, the Radio City Music Hall
and a skyscraper at no 30
with a viewing platform which we did not bother with seeing as visibilty was about 20ft. The design and brass detail throughout is amazing.
