Getting around Italy

Travel and traffic in Italy was interesting. Narrow streets and large amount of pedestrian, bike and motorcycle traffic, makes driving an automobile that much more challenging. However, you did frequently see the new Smart cars. While environmentally sound and really pretty cute, I couldn't quite envision my 6'3" husband crawling into one.

Their compact size (only seats two) extends the number of parking spaces and because of their size, they are able to park perpendicular to the sidewalk in traditionally parallel only areas as you can see here.















Motorcycles are also quite popular and one model that we saw frequently was made by Kymco, pictured below.

The city is quite romantic, and after a glass or two of wine, you couldn't help but think that David Letterman could have a heyday with a top 10 list of pick-up lines for owners of these fine machines. Now there's a advertising campaign brainstorming session you would love to be a fly on the wall in.














The Kymco DINK 200.