I Don’t Know Why You Say “Goodbye” I say “Hello”
2019 Italy . DESTINATIONSThat’s the thing with ciao, isn’t it? Only less confusing than I Am the Walrus. Worse is prego. If you bother to say thank you, grazie, you are virtually forcing an Italian to say prego; often you can hear the resentment… In the alternative, you can walk into a shop and be welcomed with prego–and
Sunshine Enough to Spread
2019 Italy . DESTINATIONSWe decided to go to the beach. But which beach? SS found a decent lido nearby with a website; they had a bar graph which showed typical client traffic, hour by hour, in real time. At 8 a.m. on a Sunday the bar graph was throbbing. Throbbing! Ain’t that kick in the head. It is
Changing of the Guard
2019 Italy . DESTINATIONSWhen you really think about it, nothing happens when the guards change; the same uniforms, the same job descriptions, the same duties, one sentry called Oliver is replaced by another called Charlie replaced by another called Archie. Yet there is a big half hour to-do about it and somehow it becomes picture worthy. Which is