Quito, Ecuador
The trains come rumbling through twice a day...there’s no warning siren, and no panic. The residents seem to have an internal clock. Life goes on.
In the Old Quarter, a short walk from Hoan Kiem Lake, you will find Train Street...a street unlike any other. Residents live, with their familis, along this slice of track. Kids play, laundry hangs, men shout and moms gossip as they hover over pots of steaming broth.
He was standing in front of his house looking over the lake
Found just above a brick wall on Train Street.
Loft level at Train Street neighborshood
In the Train Street neighborhood.
Train Street
Hoàn Kiếm Lake near Old Quarter
In the Old Quarter, a short walk from Hoan Kiem Lake, you will find Train Street...a street unlike any other. Residents live, with their families along this slice of track. Kids play, laundry hangs, men shout and moms gossip as they hover over pots of steaming broth.
Train Street
In the Old Quarter, a short walk from Hoan Kiem Lake and Train Street
Near Train Street
On Hoan Kiem Lake in the Old Quarter
On a typical Hanoi wall, crisscrossing layers of plaster, paint and mildew, you will see a multitude of stenciled advertisements, all with similar fonts and a string of numbers beginning with 09, and all including the letters KCBT. It’s an abbreviation for khoan cắt bê tông – concrete cutting and drilling. These are illegal adverts for demolition services, and they tattoo the walls of the city, as if to say, “See this building? It could be gone tomorrow.” This practice no longer exists.
Overlooking Train Street
Tom riding low!
to a home on Train Street
on Train Street
...over delicioius and healthy, coffee topped with whipped egg whites and sugar. What a treat!
Evening relaxation over a beer...well deserved after a full day of strolling of photo shots.
You never know what you will find....sometimes, just simple, vacant beauty
Climbing on poles on early Sunday evening. They shouted "hello" with big smiles.
Near Train Street
On Hoan Kiem Lake in the Old Quarter
On Hoan Kiem Lake in the Old Quarter
Old Quarter art!
I wanted to ask this checkers player for permission to take his photo. He was too focused to even hear me.
Making candy over a small sauce pan, with sugar and nuts. Children waiting patiently
Sipping great coffee and talking travel!
In the Old Quarter
In Old Quarter all day!
On Hoan Kiem Lake in the Old Quarter
Old Quarter
On Hoan Kiem Lake in the Old Quarter
We're having fun!
Playing in the street across from the Lake
I asked her, non verbally, if I could take her photo. She nodded yes, thankfully.
Walking in step and arm in arm in the Old Quarter.
On Hoan Kiem Lake in the Old Quarter
This park area, adjacent to On Hoan Kiem Lake in the Old Quarter, was teeming with local, amateur photographers.
all day...squatting or sitting cross legged. It's hard work.
On Hoan Kiem Lake in the Old Quarter
She might have been two...beautiful child.
She's happy with her work.
Near Old Quarter
On Hoan Kiem Lake in the Old Quarter