Oh springtime (that's primavera in Italian) is in the air. We might as well call it summer cause it's HOT. One nice thing about the springtime coming is the Spanish Steps. If you've seen postcards of the Spanish Steps or have visited Rome this time of year, the picture on the left shouldn't look surprising to you. You may not know that the steps don't look like this for 80% of the year. It's just steps with a lot of people sitting on them. Cause of the Festival of Spring (Festa di Primavera) they put all the flowers out making a really beautiful scene.
Another thing about springtime are the changes in coffee choices. They start whipping out Cafe Freddo. What they do at the bars is they draw a bunch of shots of espresso, add some sugar to it, and refrigerate. So it's a cold drink but they usually serve a half glass full of it (which is like 3 shots of coffee), even though the concentration of the coffee is exactly the same. I just had my first cappuccino freddo which is like cafe freddo except the rest of glass is filled with cold milk. It tasted a lot like a iced frap (for you Starbucks lovers). I am wired like crazy right now. Anyways below are a list of things that make you know you've been living in Italy for 8 months:
- You throw up inappropriate Italian hand gestures at drivers when they try to drive through a crosswalk while you're walking through it
- You are late to everything and find any excuse to justify your tardiness (doesn't help that I'm Filipino either...lol)
- Any free opportunity, you want to juggle a soccer ball
- Your body feels incomplete without 3 shots of espresso
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