Friday 10 October 2008

San Francisco II


One really nice thing about America is the street life. Possibly this has something to do with the climate, which encourages people to spend time outdoors with their fellow citizens. Two examples:

In Denver, and again in San Francisco, I saw public chess boards, at which crowds of (apparent) strangers gathered to play each other!

And this morning I saw this group of elderly Chinese women (there was a similar group of men on the other side of the park) doing some kind of co-ordinated dancing (Chinese line dancing?) in the Italian quarter. They seemed unselfconscious in the face of a number of curious photographers.

2 comments:

Dr. John said...

they are doing Tai Chi, a chinese martial art that is very slow.

The Audacity of Boats said...

no, it wasn't tai chi - it was faster and looked a lot like line dancing