We saw this guy in the piazza outside the Duomo in Milan. He is dressed in a suit, carrying a bouquet of white flower, engaged in a serious conversation on the phone and apparently looking for someone. My guess is an equally well dressed lady. From the little time we watched she never showed.

A street vendor sits on a stool with a bundle of palm fronds at his feet. He is folding and creating various insects and reptiles from his green origami work. People stop, watch, and occaisionally make a purchase. How they pack them and get back them home is anybodies guess.

Cars from somebody other than GM, Ford, and the Japanese. They are almost all small without a doubt, and gas is darn expensive. Some are very good looking vehicles that I wish we had back home.

Small religious shrines dot the city and country landscape. Some are definitely very old, but it is not surprising to find fresh flowers and a new candle burning in them.

First question: How many cars does it take to fill a silo? Second Question: What the hell is an autosilo? Third: Is it different than a “parking structure”

The average American absolutely stinks at driving compared to the Italians. Oh sure they drive fast, red lights are an endangered species, STOP signs are a suggestion and they are REAL close to each other, but your hardly ever see a banged up car, and we have yet to see an accident.

A highly decorated “street artist” (my term) stands stone still and tourists pose next to them for photo ops. It is ‘polite’ to put some coins in the plate.

A public drinking fountain with some style.

Roma era ruins preserved and built around and above at the local parking garage/autosilo.

The variation in color and texture on the exterior wall of a church. You can kinda, sorta, almost pay to get this sort of thing back home. But it just isn’t 200 years old and have the same look and feel.

A condom dispenser on the side of a building along the street in the center of a town instead of at a dingy highway truck stop.