TUESDAY 27 JULY 2010
1st graffiti sighting in Rome was in English script: HOPE, ROME. 3 planes, 2 trains, and one bus later... Amy and I arrived to our apartment after 26+ hours' travel to our friends just finishing cooking ravioli dinner. They shared, we showered and promptly went to sleep (after cleaning up the kitchen of course).
Italy has been very different than I had expected. The streets and cars are teeny, sidewalks teenier, villas with tidy architecture and unwashed faces. These were things I expected. What struck me were the people's kindness and smudgey colors; the bronzed women with their cakey eye shadow and everyone looking tidy in public; my nutella snack pack complete with teaw/lemon and the low price of groceries (and cashier effort! although ours was very nice about showing us how to use the produce self-scan).
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