Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Sidewalks of Buenos Aires



Wednesday 20 June 2007

I got caught in the rain today, which wasn't very nice halfway through a long day running around the city, and in the freezing cold.

But, it has given me an opportunity to comment on a particularly porteño problem - the sidewalks here are terrible. They are in worse shape than Detroit's roads, if that gives you an idea of how very very bad they are. Broken and uneven and dangerous, with holes and gaps and sections of just plain dirt and loose tiles.

This is just such a loose tile, and this is why they drive me crazy. So, you'll be walking down the street, on a section of sidewalk that looks fine. Step on a tile that looks even with all the others, exactly the same. And whoosh! your foot and pant-leg will suddenly be covered with muddy water! It was a tile with a dip under one side, tricky-dicky! This is bad on rainy days, but even worse on days after rainy days, when you're not expecting it.

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