Another weekend so another supermarket. John had heard about a supermarket the local pensioners get bussed to free. So working on the premiss that it must be pretty good he decided we should do the weekly shop there. So we caught the no 9 bus, I did suggest they could probably get away with riding on the pensioners bus but that idea didn’t seem to go down well.
The supermarket is just next to the Manhattan bridge ( the next one along from Brooklyn) and we were dropped right under the bridge in Chinatown.
The noise level was horrendous, Manhattan Bridge carries subway trains and as they pass over you can’t hear yourself think, I don’t know how people manage to live there. The streets were very crowded, much more so than in Battery Park City. We only walked for about 100yds through China Town but it really made us want to come back and spend some time. The shops spill out on to the streets and you can buy the most amazing things, especially foods.
We found the supermarket, you get a great view of Downtown and Brooklyn Bridge.
It was a big supermarket and eventually we managed to find everything we needed, but the layout of US supermarkets baffle all of us. Why have cheese in 3 different places, what were a very few pieces of meat doing in the middle of the fresh veg and salad?
We did the shopping and walked back to the bus stop. It was outside a very Chinese looking collection of awnings.
We whiled away the time waiting for the bus by watching a wedding party. First the bridegroom set off in a stretch limo (carrying a very pretty bouquet) then another car arrived, presumably for the bride, but it did a couple of u-turns (in the middle of a very busy road) before they decided it was the right car in the right place. The bride looked lovely in a beautiful long white off the shoulder dress. She lifted the hem of the dress up to step off the sidewalk and into the car, to reveal that under the dress she was wearing a pair of jeans and thick soled walking boots???!!
These Americans are strange.