Driving in Italy

We've been driving around Italy for a week now, on the autostrada doing 130 kph (that's about 80mph for all you "by the king's body parts" measurers),  on narrow city streets, winding country lanes and gravel roads, and though the Italians drive their chic Italian cars like the devil's on their tails, and they tend to keep their options open by straddling the lane dividers on the autostrada, we have not (tfu, tfu, tfu...) seen one accident, nor have we heard a car horn.

However leaving DC last week on the way to the airport, this is what we saw on the side of New Hampshire Ave.

New Hampshire Ave DC

More later on Ravenna and the Venezia Biennale. Today we plan to go to Padua and see Giotto.