City sights

[TabulaRasa]

The aim of this thread is to provide DMs with a collection of "city sights"(small snipets of city life in a med-fan city) so that he/she can use them to provide more colourful descriptions.

These are not events or encounters, just simple descriptions and each entry must be less than 40 words long.

Let your creative juices flow...

[TabulaRasa]

“A throng of street urchins rushes past you. They make great noises as they jump in unison in the puddle of mud lining the alley.” – 25 words

[Heathansson]

check out China Mieville books for really good descriptions along these lines
A fishwife busking her wares; challenges everyone to try her pickled herring. "A few coppers and it'll put meat on your bones, wee sprat," she says to the burliest fighter in the group.