Getting picked up by a Sicilian Don on the outskirts of Agrigento. Equipped with red sports car, gold chains and swarmy grin
Sicilian men – what’s with this “pssst”!
Bus ride in Sicily – driver side swipes the bus and the rear view mirror comes crashing down. He stops the bus, picks up the mirror and continues to drive like a maniac!
Nearly getting run over by a vesper in Rome – the Italian temper arises in me like Etna erupting!
At Internet café. The lovely young woman who runs it is getting her eyebrows shaped by her mother. I go to ask for help because the printer isn’t working. I feel BAD for interrupting her…I say SORRY! What is wrong with this picture?
The Italian train numbering system for seating!
Assisi
I walk into an exhibition of costumes from Franco Zefferelli’s "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" movie. There’s an attendant on the side – an older man in his late 50’s, beard and a bit dishevelled looking. As I walk past he is singing in Italian –"oh how lovely" I think to myself. As I draw closer, he is singing these lines (translation)
"I like men
I don’t like women
I’m a homosexual"
.....mmmm
