Jun
8
VEE #027 - Big Apple visit
Part 2 of Going 2 America
Above, video of Grand Central Station in Manhattan.
Below, view of Central Park from Top of the Rockefeller Center.
David calls a scavenger hunt a ginkana. He also uses the expression dejar a la altura del betún when comparing Whole Foods, a U.S. grocery store, to El Corte Inglés, a Spanish department store. Betún can mean shoe polish or asphalt, so this idiomatic expression is the Spanish equivalent of to leave somebody in the dust, figurative speaking, or to make mud out of someone’s reputation. In this case, David thinks that Whole Foods’ service and presentation is so outstanding that it is light years ahead of what one finds in Spain’s El Corte Inglés.
Places mentioned in this podcast:
GoBo vegetarian restaurant
Joe´s Shanghai restaurant
[...] …Barrio Sésamo, corn dogs, Vasily Kandinsky and a scavenger hunt for naked sculptures have in common? [...]