All Roads Lead to Rome!

June 12, 2005
All Roads Lead to Rome
Actually, the autostrada leads to Rome, and that’s about it. Our experiences with Italy’s high-speed tollways have been mixed; they’re fast, but they’re expensive; they’re hard to find and hard to pay for unless you have a magic pass that only people who speak Italian seem to have, but the alternative is to go down quaint roads that occasionally have, no kidding, horse and carts on them. Plus, our standard Renault Megane station wagon doesn’t accelerate quite as rapidly as the Alfa Romeos we’ve seen flying by at what Ken estimates to be 135 mph. Yikes.
In Rome, we’ve taken a break from driving and have first, taken a tour of the major places and second, walked everywhere (with the occasional taxi or metro ride thrown in). It’s been lovely.