Observations

Since I do not have much time to blog down all that I want to tell you, there is just so much happening and so much around to see that I can only give you an excerpt of my manuscript of travels. I’m sure that when I get home, I’ll be seeing many of and will be boasting about this trip for many moons to come and you will all get so sick of my rambling on about it…..

So there are some things I’ve noticed:

Dogs! Dogs are everywhere! There are a lot of dogs in Lyon and Paris. They are allowed in shops and restaurants. Sometimes, they are more well kept than their owners. I’ve seen scungy-looking beggars (‘scungy’ is that a word?) with beautiful dogs…. I love dogs, I miss Taxi. The bad side of all these dogs is that rather than concentrating and enjoying the beautiful scenery and architecture, I’ve had to learn to focus one eye up and one eye down, looking out for all the poo :)

There are a lot of security around… in Paris and Lyon it was fine, but here in Rome, it could be a bit overload. There are teams of police, guards, soldiers, security absolutely everywhere we went – I’m not sure whether to feel safe or not safe because surely there must be a reason for all the security? Is it really that dangerous here?

Latin. I’m all Latined out. If only I could read it, perhaps things would make a little more sense when I see them?

Pushy street vendors, hate them, leave me alone, if I didn’t want to buy the crappy souvenirs from the first 398 vendors who approached me 2 seconds before you did why would I buy it from you, the person who is selling the same crappy souvenirs for the same price?