Another very nice aspect of street life: people are very close physically, and even more so when in non mixed. Women often enough hold hands in pairs; more so until their 30s and when age differences are great; I suppose mature women have their hands too full for that; or of course are accompagnied by men more often!

Did I mention people kiss and hold hands, romantically this time, which means more distance actually than the sisterly hand-hugging friends share.

Men will hold each other by their shoulders, or hit each other of course. Actually men will also playfully push around their girlfriends or just girl friends--the latter usually respond; but always with more grace--tomboys are much more salient here.

And of course everyone kisses in public, and more sometimes. Kissing must be a hobby, or else it's hard to believe love can seem everywhere in this world.

Women are very feminine, some even girly, and ue more richly various bodily and behavioural details they've learned to play with, it's a hip-rolling country. While men never stop noticing, and the sexes never stop communicating non-verbally, and occasionally verbally too.

Walkmans plugged into ears will show up sometimes, but just as often people will blare noise from their mp3-cell phones in order to share music with friends, and everyone around. Of course strangers will object and so start verbal jousts, with said musical background usually turned louder.