After a very long flight, without a hoped for business class upgrade, and a delay in Frankfurt - where airport business seems to primarily happen on buses and the tarmac, we finally arrive in ROMA. Because of the delay, our pick-up from the B & B is nowhere to be seen. Buff tries a quick cell call and gets "pronto?" "pronto?" "pronto?" on the other end of the line. He tells me "I don't think he can hear me." Little did we know, that's how phones are answered in Italy. Eventually it all got straightened out and a very nice gentleman, Eduardo, drove us, - very quickly I must say! - to Ancient Romance, our not quite appropriately named lodgings. 30 years isn't ancient is it? Of course that's just Buff & I, most everything in
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