- Everyone smokes. It’s the national pasttime or something.
- Rome is stunning, but Romans don’t seem to care. Litter and graffiti are everywhere.
- Italians LOVE ham! Smoked ham, boiled ham, baked ham, raw ham, cooked ham – you get the picture.
- Fashion seems to be hit or miss.
- Drivers are crazy and squeeze through the narrowest of roads. But we never saw any road rage.
- Sheep are everywhere in the countryside. I had no idea they raised so many sheep. Sheep and grapes. But where are all the pigs to make the ham?