I find the Spanish are very different in the eye contact game, as you could probably guess. Old women will just try and stare you down in the street, but of course you can usually disarm them with a big smile.

Not always
Or they will studiously avoid making eye contact at all, even if they are looking right at you.

It's been an education. But you can make long eye contact with people and they don't get upset as an Aussie might

Of course it's quite different here in more ways than that.

got distracted in middle of comment and now don't know where I was going.

I'll leave it at that for moment

good one
and big hugs