16 Via dei Cimatori. The same. As I said yesterday, no dog poop. |
The playground at Castel Sant'Angelo. The same. |
Castel Sant'Angelo. Same. |
Gelateria Teatro. Not the same. New digs, more space. Still great gelato.
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Also, the primary mission of every Roman person seems to be to avoid giving coins as change. They REALLY don't want to. I ordered lunch today at Pizza Zaza. It was 7 Euros. I paid with a 10 Euro note. The counter attendant REALLY wanted me to cough up a 2 Euro coin so she could give me a 5 Euro note in change. What do they do with all the change they are accumulating? While shopping in a mini supermarket (I know) I got away with one. I bought my stuff from a trainee cashier (I saw them training him while standing in line) and he gave me coins as change without even trying to shake me down for coins. And it would have been totally easy for me to do...the bill was 16.45 Euros. So here's the quiz: if this was your bill what should you given the cashier? If you answered "anything over that amount...like a 20, you'd be wrong in Rome." You should give the cashier 21.45 Euros so you can get back 5 Euros. I suppose something like 51.45 would be okay too.
All for today,
Steve
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