It's official, at least in our experience, San Antonio is the friendliest city we've ever been to.
Evidence: !. almost every time we stopped and opened our map someone approached us within a minute to offer help. Once a girl got off her bike, parked it and came back to us- on a very cold morning.
2. on our 6 mile walk today, along the river to the Art Museum, more people greeted us than didn't, including path sweepers one of whom wished us a Happy Valentine's Day
3 all restaurant staff have been chatty and inquiring whether we're from "out of state"!
4 everyone chats at breakfast and in bars
Other points we've noticed about the city: there's no graffiti anywhere, neither is there dog poo (so different from European cities). There are little road maps on many of the lamp posts so it's easy to find your way.
It's an easy city to walk round as the centre is small
The streets off the small centre are very quiet.(and somewhat featureless and boring) King William district is very quiet and yet only 10 mins walk from down town
The SA Art Museum is a lovely building, inside that is, with incredible collections of Egyptian, Chinese,and Japanese artefacts amongst others
The airport is only 20 mins from King William
Our very genial host at the Gardenia Inn, Beauregard St, who talks a lot like Johnny Cash and is very sadly just recently widowed, claims his most frequently asked question is, "Why did they build the Alamo right in the middle of down town?"!! His answer, "Yes, it's a marvel none of those cannon balls hit a skyscraper."
Ate across the street in the quirky cafe-2 for 1 home- made burgers tonight-as everywhere is booked up with St Valentine celebrants. Off to Tucson tomorrow. We'll see how Arizonians compare
So we shall never get to San Antonio. C only had to read "everyone chats" to know that place isn't for him! I was surprised that they had a museum with such interesting artefacts, but the comment about the Alamo didn't surprise me at all.
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