I spent the weekend wandering around the streets of downtown.
With the sun beating down on Saturday and Sunday with heavy rain, I immersed myself in what is left of corners of history, admired and welcomed by walking, riding roughshod over roads timeless.
The Tiber Island, the Jewish ghetto, yet so seemingly genuine, Castel Sant'Angelo.
bridges, paving stones, statues, churches.
Today is Monday, and I tip arrival at the gates that mark the entrance to the subway.
closed for a strike of which, like many, did not know existed.
While I get on a bus crowded enormously, I think that perhaps strikes generally do not make much sense. They are used to create discomfort
, stressing the reasons for which workers have decided to fold their arms.
Of the two, only one has failed in full: create discomfort. But no one
, of \u200b\u200btoo many people clogging the entrances to the bus, he knew the reasons for the strike.
did not know the lady by the shrill voice and annoyed, and insisted that from the point where she was, she could not ported yet to make room for others.
did not know the guy with the beard, and called on it to stop at too many who tried to get on the bus already full to the limit. I did not know
not either, as I looked around hot, as I looked out of the portion of the window I could see, crazy traffic of cars, buses, trucks and motorbikes.
It took me twice as long to reach their destination. Many have spent twice, three times the patience.
And no, I bet, will go on to inquire why today's subway strike.
While the thick air smelled of sweat and exhaust fumes, which are thought two different cities.
may not be the same thing, that paradise of narrow streets and ancient ruins, ancient stones and smiling people who have explored the weekend, and that hell of frenzied people, crammed into tight spaces by blacks palaces of smog, with souls paved the mutual mistrust and discomfort for others.
two different cities that border, and that you look at askance.
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