People cannot help unless they know you need help.
The vast majority of people want to help.
I firmly believe that both those statements are true and are even more valid in a foreign country.
My most recent experience of this involved an insect bite that wasn’t an insect bite, a pharmacist whose wife drove me to a [...]
We arrived back in Abruzzo last Friday evening having flown to Rome and driven across Italy in a cinquecento. So far I have to say I love the look of the little Fiat 500 and it does suit the narrow streets of some of the towns we’ve been through better than its larger rivals.
We, like [...]
Still in Spoltore and feeling a bit peckish we looked for a place to have lunch. Local knowledge is always a great help so P asked a butcher and he pointed us to Les Arcs at Via G. Fonzi, 139, the main road through the town.
We were definitely the only tourists in Les Arcs. In [...]