… on a miserably rainy morning in the Eternal City… and you want to be out walking around seeing things and absorbing all there is to see and do in a magnificent capital city like Rome. What do you do? You go out and do all of that… and take your camera with you to record what other people are doing out on a rainy morning! What else?
Catch up on your email on the Spanish Steps.
Enjoy getting your picture taken… sorta.
Rest your feet and hope nobody takes your picture with this silly orange poncho on.
Ask young beautiful girls to take your picture… it works sometimes.
Stay inside and check out who didn’t show up for duty.
Try to ignore your jet-lag as long as possi..b..zzzzzz
Make a note to self to pack your own suitcase.
Forget about the puddles… it’s just a dress.
Sit down, eat gelato, meet new people and talk to everyone.
Is there more? Oh yes… later… Ciao
BTW… from the FREE Dictionary
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Word History: Ciao first appears in English in 1929 in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, which is set in northeast Italy during World War I. It is likely that this is where Hemingway learned the word, for ciau in Venetian dialect means “servant, slave,” and, as a casual greeting, “I am your servant.” Ciau corresponds to standard Italian schiavo; both words come from Medieval Latin sclavus, “slave.” A similar development took place with servus, the Classical Latin word for “slave,” in southern Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Poland, where servus is used as a casual greeting like ciao. At the opposite end of the world, in Southeast Asia, one even sees words meaning “slave” or “your slave” that have developed into pronouns of the first person, again to indicate respect and humility.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved
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