June 26, 2011, 5:51 PM Italy time
A table in the living room in Taormina, Italy
There are two gates in Taormina that mark the city boundaries: Door Messina and Door Catania. The city is a huge tourist town and it is easy to see who is here on vacation. I am convinced now that people who say they have been to Italy are slightly full of shit. These people who vacation here have not been to Italy; they have been to America in a different time zone. They wake up and speak English with each other and then talk to Italian workers in English and the Italians who work at these tourist places speak English back. They eat at restaurants meant for tourists and order pizza even when the pizza sucks there. They take the wire way to the beaches and pay too much for coffee. They think that all of the Italians are fashionable and marinara is tomato sauce.
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