A side note about traffic in Rome. The streets are filled with insane drivers! And no one really pays attention to any driving laws; the laws are only suggestions...which not many people tend to care about. If there is ten inches between your car and another car a motor scooter will zoom in to fill the void. Yet amidst all this craziness and horn honking, no one seems to suffer from road rage and we haven't seen any accidents. Amazing!
But if you're a pedestrian...what is one to do? It seems the safe thing to do would be to walk to an intersection with lights. And they do have lights for pedestrians. After a couple of days of observation we have figured out this is what the pedestrian lights mean:
green--walk at your own risk; you are taking your life in your hands
yellow--run like h***!!!!
red--stick your chin up and casually cross the street like the Romans do; if you're lucky you may live to see the other side
The elevators are quite small here. Our hotel elevator says it's for four persons, but it's really the size for one person and a purse. Here we all try to fit in at once. Hope there's room for Jacque!
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