The pavements are being repaired all over the Centro Histórico. This is what they look like on our way to the film series. It's a major thoroughfare.
All this construction makes me wonder about the blind people. There are more blind people out walking here than I've ever seen in a city before. Sometimes they're alone, other times they're in twos or threes in a line. The first one has the cane that s/he swings left and right until it touches the base of a building. The other one(s) put one hand on the shoulder of the one in front of him/her. Just think how difficult this would be given the state of the paving stones (missing, uneven, concave, pushed up by tree roots) and the buses and taxis whizzing by. It's bad enough for sighted people. Ask Alain. I don't know what the blind do when the sidewalks and streets are in this kind of condition. I did see a workman helping a blind woman navigate on the street I'm going to show you tomorrow. It's by the river (what river? you ask) on the way to the bread store.
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