Live for the day, not for the Future

Culture Shock... What can i say, the Italians definetely live for the day and not for the future. I say this because the other day, after about the 20th main for lunch (19 of those were some type of pasta) i was laughed by my mates cousins for putting a seat belt on in the back seat in the car(this is un-heard of in Rome), to preceed coasting down the freeway at 200kmph with no one in the car wearing a seat belt. To put this into perspective, a motor bike screamed past us like we standing still only to have a young boy (max 12 years old) on the back in shorts and a t-shirt and the national road toll per week is over 100!

Every night in Rome, a couple of english companies organise pub crawls around the city where you pay 15 euro and you get free drinks for a hour and free entry into the clubs. Its a good way to see the night life as its really expernsive (15 euro entry to most clubs and a beer at a club is 10 euro....$1 Aus = 0.6 euro). The only small downer is the pub crawls seem to be full of americans tourists. Of the 70 people on the pub crawl, 50 of them would of been americans. I am not saying i don't like americans, but 50 of them in a rome bar can get a bit much.

We also went to the beach the other day which was different. In Australia, we can go to any beach we want but in Italy, 95% of the beaches are private and locals pay a annual fee for a bit of beach space.

Being the mature one I am, the first thing a guy will notice in Rome is the women. I don't know if its in the water or all the pasta they eat, but the roman females are the most well endowed women i have ever seen. There is no such thing as a flat chested roman women. Even the young girls are busting out!

The plan for the next week is to spend one or two more nights in Rome then we are off to Abruzzo where my mate has a family holiday house on the eastern coast.

Cheers