Starting at Soho Square, we wound our way through the streets, past Christmas parties spilling out of bars, before pausing outside the offices of Soho Estates.
Beneath the church of San Lorenzo Maggiore (13) are some extraordinary excavations of Graeco-Roman streets, and here you can wander down underground cobbled streets past the remains of a bakery, a winery and more (excavations open 9am-5.30pm 9am-5.30pmdailyto 1.30pm; €5/£3.80).
After falling off of the turnip truck from Texas in the late 1990s, I'd walk down permissively cannabis-clouded downtown streets, past corner C & D dealers, and into a nightclub to find signs that said "NO DANCING".
Mumbai today really is a place where you can see Rolls-Royces bumping along pot-holed streets past naked children, in the shadow of billionaires' personal skyscrapers.
Instead, we travelled east through prosperous but not lordly streets, past brick and mock-Tudor houses with their lights on in the early dark and their Christmas lights already blinking out of the snowcapped shrubbery.
This video from NBC New York shows protesters streaming through the streets, past buses and taxis.
The walk was about a mile along deserted streets, past giant apartment blocks.
The volunteers rowed through drowned streets, past homes of friends and relatives.
Walls of black smoke rolled down streets, past houses ignited by flaming debris.
We walked over washboard streets, past boarded-up houses with desiccated spider plants hanging from the porch ceilings.
