The whole tier — common area, surrounding cells, and the catwalk enclosing everything — wasn't much larger than a basketball court, and anybody in there could have told you that, if you went promenading on the catwalk, two hundred sixty steps would bring you back to where you started.
"In the warm weather you could promenade along the top, in the inclement weather you could walk on the lower promenade and you wouldn't get so wet".
You saunter down the promenade, lulled by the moonlit waves, tropical breeze and twinkling stars.
By Margaret Fishback The New Yorker, April 24 , 1937P. 91 If you cannot promenade View Article By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb By Jia Tolentino By Robin Wright.
Ideally, he said, the avenue is "a place of commerce, culture and leisure, a place where you can promenade from the Arc de Triomphe to the Tuileries gardens, drink a glass of wine or have lunch".
"If you stand on the promenade, you have to look through it and see the harbor," she said.
Promenade slowed you down, stopped you, made you aware of yourself and the place you were in.
You'd just promenade up and down the street like they did in the 19th century?
Riding or walking along the promenade, you notice the wind and the tide, and the smell of salt and exhaust.
The fact that you can't promenade in seaside towns any more because of mobs of gormless punters staring at equally dead-eyed, unmoving "artistes".
