We decided to recover the lost trip of the previous year for the accident of Stefano.
We leave to spend Christmas in New York. Comfortable hotel in Jersey City just steps from the PATH station, comfortable shoes, jackets, hats and gloves, (the snow in New York at Christmas is ubiquitous) and away up and down the streets of Manhattan, the 25th a long, relaxing walk through Central Park with a small Pandoro and a nice bottle of Italian sparkling wine in your backpack, chosen the place for the ritual, sneaked champagne in the snow and we enjoy the geese that flutter back and forth trying to reach the frozen Pond . Uncorked sparkling wine, a bite of Pandoro and a nice drink to celebrate Christmas we had missed just a year before … then run to warm up inside the crowded Macys to look with a critical eye, the many curious Italians that fill the bags of useless things just because the dollar …
