Miscellaneous Forum

So, what's your favorite people-watching spot in the world? Mine would be either the Cafe de Flore in Paris or the "Garage" flea market in New York.

What's yours?

And yes, this may turn into a press project if we get great responses. ;)

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Piazza San Marco in Venice.

Caffe Invento on Kings Road-London
One of the caffes "Kod Konja" in the hart of Belgrade
Sitting on the grass at the Sidney Observatory on the Rocks-Sidney
Caffe "Malle Babbe" Market Square-Maastricht

Any outdoor restaurant in the Dupont Circle area of DC. You get to see it all. ~

Any cafe in the main square of Ruse in Bulgaria is good.

The main street in Hsipaw (Burma).

Any main international airport (Heathrow is favourite).


Any bar in the red light district of Amsterdam at night.

Finikoes (seafront) in Larnaca in Cyprus.

I will think of a few more and get back to you.

Hope this assists,

fergy.

ipanema beach in rio de janeiro.
classy and the best shaped people in the world.

Les Deux Garçons in Aix-en-Provence and Gilli in Piazza della Republica in Florence. I could sit for hours at either one.

St James's Park in London (in the summer, of course) - amazing blend of tourists and locals and businessmen on lunchbreak.

Steps of the Duomo, Florence - We always said that if we just sat long enough, every person on earth would pass by. It's in the heart of the crazy tourism of that city, but it's beautiful nonetheless.

Any Walmart in Kentucky on Friday night.

ROFLMAO Dester ~

venice beach in south california is pretty good too i think.
especially if you like weirdos.

Well for me that is any Sunday in the winter months in Spain Andalucia Costa del Sol .
It is amazing to see the locals walk on the ''Paseo's ''with hats scarves and sweaters on.

Then you see the Brits the Dutch the Germans and others from Europe's colder countries walking around with no shirt on and some even on the Beach and a few even in the water .

Ok a few Canadians and Americans and of course others from North America are there as well .

I find that very interesting and I can sit there for hours watching people go by it's so very relaxing .

Hansi

well, i love the laneways in melbourne (a little enclave of cafes and clubs - street art sanctioned) but the passegiata in Lecce in Puglia springs to mind

but everyone is walking - making the promenade and they are looking at you as much as you are looking at them

The Caffe Pedrocchi in Padua. It has been a student hangout since it opened in 1831, and is THE place to see and be seen.

I work at an airport, and I must say it's prime people watching. My top choice would be Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass.
The London Tube is a good one.
Central Park in NYC
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (during the summer)
San Francisco..just about anywhere in the city
yikes, I could go on for hours....

For me, pretty much anywhere in Chicago. My friend and I sat outside the Hard Rock Cafe for hours. I even had a homeless guy come up to me and draw a picture of me and only charged me 5 dollars :)

I would also say Amsterdam anywhere in the Red Light District. Very, very interesting.

I'm going to second Shohman's vote for Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA. It's really hard to beat that. I'm also adding Commercial Street in Provincetown, MA. That's about as interesting as it gets. :)

Another of my choices, has to be from one of the restaurant terraces overlooking Djemma El Fnaa in Marrakech- at all times of day, but particularly late afternoon onwards from when the foodstalls are being set up to into the night. A People Watchers Paradise!
Locals, tourists, berbers, touregs, snake charmers, stall holders, story tellers, acrobats, musicians, prostitutes, Immans, men riding donkeys laden with bales,fortune tellers, 3 or more generations of a family strolling together, transvestites, wrestlers, henna artists, con artists, hawkers, men carrying monkeys, beggers,courting couples, argueing youths etc etc.

totally agree suvanki.
that is one great place for people watching too.

Istanbul/Taksim square after 6 pm,cooooool
Any cafee at Baker street London during tourist season mmmmm
Se disrtict of Sao Paulo Brazil ,waaaaaaa
Outside Elephand&Castle tube station during rush hour, including to watch and learn religious predictors,weird looking and dressed characters,tired commuters,pickpockets,all shapes and sizes of ugly and beautiful people,teaming with people running in and out of many busses similar to ants I would say,oh oh.

These are wonderful--makes me want to try all of them out! Keep 'em comin'!

I'm thinking Place des Vosges in Paris as well.