I posted a few more pictures from week two. These include a few shots of my flat in Rome and the views from the side streets on my walk home from a meeting at the Bank of Italy. Week 3 and other stories are coming soon.
I have seen enough painting and frescos of Saints and prophets to ask a rather disturbing question. Why do all the saints look like the crazy bearded homeless guy that hangs out near the metro talking to himself? There's something going on here.
I'm also very concerned at the severe shortage of toilet seats in public restrooms throughout Rome. In seven floors of the economics building at Sapienza, there is not one toilet seat in the student restrooms. I kinda think a mafia dominated toilet industry didn't deliver all the goods. I imagine that somewhere else in Italy there are no toilets but plenty of seats. (If they can do it with garbage, they can do it with toilet seats click here)There really should be a toilet seats per capita adjustment to national GDP. In which case, Italy might rank a bit low.
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