Flowery carriages, Lime scooters and pink boats in Texas

by carollightwoodApril 22, 2019April 22, 2019

Instead of empty streets in the financial district on weekends after the brokers and bankers have gone home, downtown San Antonio is busy 7 days a week. The city’s biggest tourist attractions–Riverwalk and the Alamo along with a couple of museums and some other entertainment venues–are right in the heart of city. And shuttling tourists from place to place around the area is good business.

Here are a few things I saw…

diners shaded by umbrellas at Riverwalk — The San Antonio River is not much more than a canal lined with broad terraces used for outdoor dining and walking. The first effort to line the river to control flood damage began in 1907, but it took over 20 years before the Powers-that-Be moved ahead vigorously with the Riverwalk.

Moon bridge over San Antonio River — A motorized pink boat filled with tourists glides under footbridge built in the Chinese (or Japanese) Moon bridge style. The San Antonio River, which rises from 4 nearby springs, is quite shallow.

Performance stage along Riverwalk San Antonio — Before the tourists in that pink boat, above, go much farther, they will see to their right this stage and, below, the amphitheatre seating on the other side of the river. This man was setting up for a concert that evening in honor of
the crowning of Le Rey Feo for Fiesta!, a huge 10 day celebration in San Antonio.

amphitheater on San Antonio Riverwalk — Only a few hundred people could squeeze into the event.

18th century landau carriage San Antonio — Back on the streets of San Antonio a 18th Century Landau carriage meets 21st Century Lime scooter.

white landau San Antonio — A landau in white circles the plaza in front of the Alamo.

19th Century carriage with pink flowers San Antonio — I love the pink flowers on this carriage! This must be a designated carriage parking zone.

horse hooves with silver pedicure — When is too much just about right? When your carriage horse has a sparkly silver pedicure!

scooters and horse carriage San Antonio — Lime and Bird scooters are everywhere in downtown San Antonio, but only the young and fearless are riding them. Maybe during the week, young stockbrokers cruise from place to place on them, or maybe not…

Monument to the dead at the Alamo — I didn’t tour the Alamo, but thousands of other people did. It is surprising how few of this group were looking up at the monument to the dead at the battle for the Alamo.
Coming next: A visit to the San Antonio Botanical Garden

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