The city treated us to another of its wonderful, sunny days so we decided to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge for some lunch in DUMBO and an explore of Brooklyn Heights.

My little Mum (on her iPhone, as she ALWAYS is. She seriously has the attention span of a three year old) and my big Mr waiting for our friends at the entrance to the bridges walkway.

The bridge, featuring the ever-present Star Spangled Banner. Sadly, long sections of the pedestrian walkway are blocked off on both sides at the moment by what I guess are construction barriers. You can see the top of them below, they're ugly and restrict a lot of the beautiful views from the bridge.

Not all of them though. Mwah ha haaaa!

They're not lying. It's sweet as a nut.

DUMBO bird!

There were a huge amount of weddings seemingly taking place in and around DUMBO, most of them involving seriously horrible wedding dresses. Sadly, I was very slack at documenting these, but I can confirm that one was was bright turquoise and most looked highly flammable. Here is the lone one I managed to capture, largely because she walked back and forth across our paths so many times. Each time on her own, and clutching her gown around her like a death shawl.

I like to think she came across this bus afterwards and they committed some acts of kindness on her.

We then strolled up the promenade until we eventually made it to Brooklyn Heights, which I've decided is high on the list of places I would like to live if we had endless money and were actually going to settle here. The houses are incredible, the streets are cute and cobbled, it's peaceful and the views are spectacular.

A panorama I took with my Mums aforementioned iPhone.

That old statue by sunset.

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