title A Manhattan Hotdog, New York, USA - 21st August 2011 intro It's the day after Phil and Tania's wedding, in the leafy burbs of New Jersey - the Garden State. Nosher, Sean, Hamish and Martin are hanging around in the morning waiting for the post-wedding Brunch, in between bouts of dropping people off at the nearby Summit Station, courtesy of Martin's hired V-6 Mustang convertible. Following the brunch, Martin drops Nosher off at the station, after which there's a train ride to Penn Station and a wander around Manhattan for a few hours. The only real mission is to eat a hotdog, which Nosher achieves at Bryant Park, behind the New York Public Library, on 42nd Street. In fact two are eaten, as the mission was a request from Isobel, who had stayed over in Mallorca for an extra day and by this time was back home with The Boy: hers had to be eaten too, obviously. The wander ends when the skies open, and the canyons of Manhattan fill up with a wall of rain, reminiscent of the scene in "The Day After Tomorrow" when the wall of water sweeps in from the ocean. imgp4253 Outside Penn Station, near Macy's imgp4255 Further up 7th Avenue imgp4258 A rickshaw takes a break by a hot dog stand imgp4260 Papaya Dog on East 33rd and 7th imgp4264 A view of the Empire State Building on 5th Avenue imgp4265 Old signs on 33rd Street imgp4267 Dereliction on 33rd Street imgp4271 A view of the Empire State from 33rd Street imgp4272 Shiny fire hydrant imgp4275 A neon 99c Store imgp4277 A black and gold building imgp4283 A New York cab steams across an intersection imgp4285 On the Avenue of the Americas imgp4287 In Bryant Park imgp4291 Intersection crosswalk imgp4292 The shiny new Bank of America building imgp4294 The hotdog stand imgp4296 Nosher's second hotdog - with Sauerkraut imgp4303 Bryant Park café culture imgp4306 More Manhattan dereliction imgp4308 A traffic cop imgp4310 A hotdog stand near Times Square imgp4312 Heaving masses in Times Square imgp4315 Another hotdog stand imgp4319 Some photo-shoot occurs imgp4323 An NYPD "golf cart" mills around imgp4324 Times Square imgp4328 The NYPD are doing PR sessions imgp4329 The New York Police Department imgp4333 Big Yellow Taxi imgp4334 Traffic down 7th Avenue imgp4336 Building adverts imgp4339 Another look at the Empire State Building imgp4340 Opposite Penn Station, a wall of rain closes in imgp4346 Rain lashes down imgp4349 Umbrella action imgp4350 Taxis in the rain imgp4353 A derelict tin building imgp4357 Some sort of semi-wasteland imgp4363 Manhattan forms the back-drop to Newark airport imgp4364 The sky turns yellow as the sun sets imgp4367 Back at Paddington Station imgp4368 Further down the platform at Paddington imgp4369 Class 43 locos at Paddington Station imgp4371 The main concourse at Paddington imgp4373 Going down into the Underground imgp4374 An underground train pulls in imgp4375 An underground passage imgp4376 Another underground train at Oxford Circus imgp4377 Liverpool Street station's concourse imgp4378 Nosher's Class 90 waits to leave imgp4382 First on the old Mark 3 carriage imgp4383 A sluice gate at Bramford imgp4384 The remains of the British Xylotol factory imgp4387 A derelict office block at Bramford imgp4390 More derelict buildings in Bramford imgp4394 A pink-roofed derelict building imgp4397 The former British Xylotol factory