This is the Trevi Fountain. We can curate the photographs so that we can’t see the crowd. Here is the crowd.
There are lots of changes from 43 years ago, 1980, when I traveled there. More people. We were traveling in January and February 1980, so that’s not a fair comparison. But the crowd is more diverse. At that time we ran into Australian travelers, the same people in hostels as we traveled. We were mostly Caucasian. Now the crowd is much more diverse and I also do not know what language a person will speak. Race is a messy construct anyhow, very unscientific, but I really like the diversity and not knowing what language a person will be fluent in until I hear them speak.
Here is the Vatican Museum. Also crowded and diverse.
Here is a park near the train station in Rome with some “Olympics” for both kids and adults.
We were staying in hostels and only did one formal tour. I wonder if the expensive hotels have the same diversity.
Let’s end with the fountain again.
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It’s a melting pot
One of my strangest experiences in Milan was buying a coffee at a kiosk by the cathedral. An Asian woman was in front of me, Korean, it happened. She didn’t speak Italian and the guy behind the counter didn’t speak English. I’d been there several times during that strange week, so when he saw me he asked me if I could tell the woman how much the coffee cost. π€£
The English language tour to see Leonardo’s Last Supper was all Asians and me.
Our Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel 3 hour tour was all sorts of people and the whole museum was as busy as a crowded concert. In the Sistine Chapel they regularly had an announcement in Italian and English saying please be quiet, this is a church. Then people would be quiet for a little bit.
Wow.