Buffalo, NY (7th July 2013)

City Hall

In the morning we took the metro and headed to downtown  Buffalo. We started to walk, following a walking tour described in one of our brochures. Buffalo has a lot of nice buildings with architectural characteristics, for example the Guaranty building (1895-1896, Louis Sullivan) or the City Hall (1929-1931). We unfortunately could not go into the City Hall, but  apparently it has a wonderfully decorated inside.

We strolled along Elmwood Avenue, with plenty of shops, art galleries and restaurants/bars in colorful American style houses. Right after that we took Delaware Av., which has some beautiful mansions.

The naval park on the waterfront

At around 4.30 pm our host Sharon picked us up and drove us to the water front, a very nice place at the Erie canal with USS ships and a submarine used during WWII. We walked until a kind of watch tower where we could go up and enjoy the nice view over Buffalo. For dinner Sharon took us to a Greek restaurant on Elmwood Avenue. 

The House of Chicken wings

We originally had planned to take the train back to NYC on Monday morning (8th July), but as we saw that the ticket price had doubled we decided to take the Greyhound overnight again. As a result we had one day more in buffalo, which we used to explore the city on foot once more. We checked out the public library as we (actually it was just me, Romina ;-)) wanted to see the original manuscript of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain lived in Buffalo for about 2 years. 

We had lunch at the Anchor bar, the house of chicken wings, where the original Buffalo chicken wings were first served. At the end of the day we prepared for another night ride and impatiently looked forward to be in NYC again!