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July 2001: New York City | |
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The Cloisters is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum. It houses various medieval treasures and spectacular architechture. Located in Fort Tryon Park in the 200s of Manhattan, it's more than worth the 1/2 hour subway ride. | 
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While the art collection is superb, we took most of our pictures of the outside. It was so refreshing to surface from the subway and encounter all this. | 
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The building stones were taken from Europe in crates and painstakingly reassembled piece by piece. It sounds a little weird, but the effect is lovely. | 
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The cafe surrounds this darling little courtyard. | 
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But the best part is the garden where they've cultivated a variety of plants used in medieval cusine and medicine. Here, for instance, is a fig tree. | 
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My favorite plant was this, the biggest thistle I've ever seen. I didn't know it got this big. | 
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Here is John for size comparison. | 
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