"Jessicadf's Italy Page" a Italy Travel Page by jessicadf

Now I've been lucky enough to have visited Italy on three occassions. This last time was by far the best, accompanied by the love of my life, it was the best.

This time we rented a car, but no accidents ensued. Only the lovely people, classic architecture and fabulous food to enrapture our souls.

One time I was in Italy, I was with two girlfriends. We flew to Paris, rented a car and drove to Rome. Along the way, we stayed in Portofino, Venice, Fiesole (Florence), Positano and Rome. In between Fiesole and Positano, we were in a head-on collision (yikes! but no one was hurt, and no, I wasn't the driver), and stayed overnight in a small town near Perugia, but I don't remember the town's name. Perhaps it was all the chianti we drank that night, to celebrate that we were still alive (and boy did our teeth turn purple).

So there we are, driving from Fiesole towards Positano one beautiful morning. Maria's driving, I'm in the front passenger seat, and Felicia's sleeping off the previous evening's chianti in the back seat.

We see a sign with no text, just three arrows veering off in different directions. Hmm. What'll we do? Not sure. I'm just relaxing and letting Maria drive.

So we get to this split in the road where the road splits -- to the left, forward or to the right. We know we want to go to the left, so Maria takes the left split.

WHOOPS. Turns out that's the OFF-RAMP for people coming off the highway! CR*P!!

Heading directly towards us was a woman in her car, attempting to brake, madly.

Thank god, nobody was seriously hurt (though my neck smarted for the rest of our trip). The woman had a cat in a cage, that she was taking home from the vet. She spoke no English, and we spoke only a few words of Italian. The Caribinieri showed up to figure out what was going on. None of them spoke English. Then the woman's husband and father showed up... none of them spoke English either. We could have been in serious trouble!

Somehow Maria worked it out -- I don't remember how... and the woman's father actually drove us around and found us a hotel to stay in for the night. A nice hotel, if I remember correctly... we drank plenty of Chianti that night...

The next morning we took a cab ride to Peruggia, to the closest Enterprise Rental Car location, where they gave us another car. This time they didn't take any chances, and gave us a mini-van. Hahahahahaha.