Travel Space 4 U

Italy was the country we had dreamed to visit long before in the Soviet Union, where there was iron curtain and it was impossible to go abroad. At last our group of relatives managed to make this tour in six days with a very good guide. Our guide Boris M. did his best to show us the country in such a short period. Italy made an impression of a country without strict rules: it was strange to see cars and buses on tram rails, then trams themselves on the same rails. People are lively and open. There are difficulties with languages, often we could not communicate, but still somebody knowing English could be found. We were told that in Naples mafia controlled restaurants, and in fact on our first morning in that town in a café I saw a man walking about and watching attentively.

The tourist objects were in good order. In the forum of ancient Rome there were  lots of tourists, and at some moment a woman from our group was lost. She immediately came to a policeman and very soon joined our group again. After a day in Rome we were taken to Tivoly, villa D’Este with 100 fountains of very special construction. In the evening we had a dinner in a restaurant, where we listened to very good singers, one of them a young girl, a singer of Rome Opera.