A Venezia

Today has been very "Roman".

We started by going to Fabio's brothers car dealership "OnlyExclusiveCars". To get to the shop we went from the South West if Rome to the North East traffic was heavy and Fabio weaved, ignore lights and got up to 200 kph. I love Roman traffic.

We left Fabio's 1986 Fiat UNO at the shop and "borrowed" a Mercedes C200 CDI from the inventory. This took some time arrange so while we waited Chris dreamed. As you can see he got comfy in a Lamborghini Murcielago. We were finally about to leave when the office phone rang and we were delayed - a potential buyer for the Mercedes would be there in 15 minutes. No idea what the buyer thought but we finally got on our way in the comfy Mercedes.

Next, we stopped for lunch at a "truck stop". The food was amazing, they had ricotta fresca, ricotta cheese made fresh that day. We sat right next to the grille, they had super fresh meat that they grilled right there. We all had bruschetta and pasta - belicimo! I took photos of all the plates but I can share with you until we find wifi.

From the truck stop it was back in the car, past Florence and then through Bologna. This part of the trip had crazy traffic with a road full of big trucks. It reminded me of I-75 through Cinci. Only in Italy no one follows lanes, there were times that I actually thought either we would collide with a semi or the semi would hit a guide rail. It was exhilarating!

Through all the excitement I still managed to get in a few hours of studying and learned how to conjugate ire, are, ere verbs into three tenses in Italian.