Fascination of Puerto-Rican capital -3. Puerto-Rican balcony
After we bought everything it was extremely hard to catch a taxi . Pedestrians were not around at all (all people have their own cars), and noone wanted to get some extra money. Finally, one of the local inhabitants pointed a route to the bank, where taxi stop was located. Its interesting that bank placed five automatic cash terminals together.
Our way back was not short, but we overpassed it smoothly and with comfort under the funny sounds of Puerto – Rican radio . Driver was the same man; I’ve got a feeling that he was watching us. On one crossroad my opinion regarding San Juan became worse – I saw rotted corpse of big rat.
Other day I desided to take a walk around the old city. Sea-front Boulevard was very busy because of presence of our vessel in the port. Commerce wasn’t so deafening as in Mexico, for example, but still remained. By the luxurious banks and hotels, tavernas and squares there were many parrot owners, beggars, masked statues; coaches with horses were moving slowly and significantly. Moving by the along the seacoast I noticed plenty of splendid trees; one of them was exceptionally enormous. There were many fontains and monuments around, that place reminded me Primorskiy bouleward in Odessa in summertime, but more neat .
On the street in the capital of Puerto-Rico
Then I decided to turn inside the city. Architechture and planning were making impression: 2-3 level houses, narrow cobble-stoned lanes, slim tall palms, even shops on the cutted off corners, all intensified impression that I’m now in my native city. Dates on the buildings testified that city was built during 16-19 centuries, that’s why there were few architectural styles mixed here. Glamorous BMW and Chryslers on the roads, where only one car could pass at the time, were looking very unusual. I paid my attention to the one of the houses – they were very funny.
Puerto-Rican balcony
