apparently every occasion is an occasion to wear heels in italy….going shopping, going to the beach, playing sports….etc..

here’s an example of driving in italy…
I was on a 4 lane road today (two in each direction) and on the sides of both roads cars are parked (with no space between the second lane and the cars parked on the side). It basically ends up that the cars driving drive over the divider line (a lot of roads like this don’t even bother with dividing lines) because you have doors opening on the parked cars on the right side of the road, bicycles on the right, scooters on the left and the occasional car passing going the other way moving into what should be the left lane…as a result (I guess this can be considered driving defensively) you end up sort of merging to the middle of the two lanes to let all the chaos ensue around you without consequence. It’s sort of a beautiful thing cuz you can still pass the slow moving cars without much threat….
the beauty, art and chaos of driving in italy…I’m not scared anymore you just have to actually pay attention when you drive…in the states they just widened the lanes such that you don’t even have to pay attention when you drive (make it easy for the lowest common denominator…aka. the stupid people…)…in europe you have to drive actively…if someone dies then they deserved it…in the states if someone dies then get a lawyer…

I’m going to learn more Italian in a week of being here then i learned deutsch living in Deutschland for a year…it’s quite easy…
in fact it’s very cute the way the italians put a hard e sound at the end of most words when they don’t speak much english…except words that actually end with a silent E…those they manage to leave off…the stereo-typical italian accent speaking english is not really an exaggeration…I love listening to it…
don’t ask an italian to spell M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I