Rome'n the Streets

After returning to England yesterday, we did reflect on our 1 week Rome holiday. We enjoyed being on the streets of Rome as much as seeing the sights. Even though we were always in a crowd, being on the streets is where you learn how people live. We thought that London traffic congestion was bad but look at these scooters. I guess there are 20 scooters to every 1 car on the streets. That's because there's no room to park. If there is 3 feet between 2 parked cars there will be 2 scooters there. When the parking is gone the scooters park on the sidewalks and the cars will double park. If you come to your car and it's boxed in, no problem, you just lay on the horn until people come and move. We ate all of our meals at these sidewalk ristorante's. Most shops will be open 9 am to 1 pm, then 3 pm to 7 pm. So you can have lunch and a nap. Most locals can speak a bit of English but the Italian language is similar to Spanish, and not to difficult to pick up. It was a great holiday.