Viva Italia!

Well, after a very long day driving, we are finally (Wednesday) in Italy. We were warned that it would be vastly different to the previous countries we have visited. The Germanic countries are very structured and organised…Italy is not!

We saw evidence of this on the outskirts of town, when we hit the traffic. Chaos reigned and there was much ooh and aahing as little cars cut in front of us, and trucks did the same to little cars.

We had a quick turn around at the hotel before going out to an Italian Restaurant for dinner. Service appears to be a haphazard thing in this city, but the meal was nice enough. We’ve been told that tourists flock to Venice in such numbers that there is no need for the locals to go out of their way to please anyone but themselves, so they don’t.

After dinner, we took a stroll around St Mark’s Square, which was very pretty with the lights coming on and little orchestras playing along the sides.