"Where are the women?" I am on the balcony of my hotel in the hot Moroccan sunshine thinking about this and watching the local men gather below me, as the call to prayer drifts through the languid streets.
Then a spirited bout of the board game Settlers of Catan on the veranda, followed by a stroll to the sunbathers' deck to watch poisonous lionfish and curious sea turtles gather below, lured by spotlights.
The sidewalks of Times Square are also impeded by stationary groups of smokers outside their office buildings, massive concrete planters on the sidewalks designed to block suicide bombers and screeching crowds of teenagers who gather below a second-story window of the MTV studios.
A love for the families That gather below.
Here, locals gather below wooden beams and lanterns to devour Polish food that makes the most of seasonal produce; try the roast venison with porcini mushrooms and moist piernik (gingerbread) served with cherry vodka.
Kljatov sometimes also swaps out wool and carpet for a backlit glass table, using a sliced plastic bottle as a vertical tripod to capture the sea of snowflakes that gather below.
