New Yorks Best Pizza - Neapolitan Style

I totally fell in love with the West Village during the food tour and so the day after I had to return there. First I grabbed a slice at Joe's Pizzeria (of Spiderman 2 fame) and then while walking down Bleecker street I stumbled upon Keste - a newly opened pizzeria with some delicous pizzas - the best I've had so far even (and I was recently in Rome so that's saying something). I had the Keste pizza with parma ham, arugola and mozzarella. There was something special about the crust (the bread). It was super tasty. Also, it was much softer than what I'm used to from other pizzerias. I don't know what the difference is or how they do it, but it was great.

I was fortunate to have some great company at the pizzeria - I was joined by Joey, a New Yorker who works at Freewheel. We had a very interesting conversation about work and life. Afterwards we had some delicious italian ice cream and then he showed me around to some spots I would never have seen otherwise. We walked along the piers off of the west village with a view across the Hudson river to New Jersey. Then we strolled uptown along The High Line - a sort of pedestrian path above street level.

At the Harbor Conservatory (my music school) Steve Lopez has been doing some serious and much needed work on my bongo technique. A better technique means better ergonomics, sparing my fingers and shoulders, and of course, a better sound.

Today I stayed home and did some much needed maintenance work, cleaning up and shopping some groceries (finally found a nice store for vegetables) and even venturing to the local laundromat (first ever laundromat experience for me).

I've organized my photos now and started uploading them to Flickr, which will take a while since I'm on a slow and flaky connection. The upload seems stuck at the moment, but hopefully tomorrow I'll get most of the photos uploaded. Flickr seems to be flipping my photos around 90 degrees, but why!?