Love the Superstrade (like our interstate highways) and Autostrade (major toll road) that connect major destinations.Especially love the Autogrills on the Superstrade...but more on that later.
Never, ever travel without a map. On the roads, the signage will not help unless one already has a pretty good idea of how to get where one is going. Having a driver and a navigator helps. In our car, we did even better--we had a driver and four navigators.
The cities/towns do not have blocks but rather a willy-nilly network of vehicular and pedestrian pathways. Even with a map, we got lost. So we learned to look up. The duomo in every town and city rises above the surrounding buildings. We could site our location just like mariners do with the North Star.
Love the traffic circles, but the signage there won't help, either. We saw many traffic circles with multiple exit options for the same destination. Like taking directions from the Scarecrow in Oz.
I think the Italians like us, I really do. However, there must be a small rebel group in charge of directions. And not just on the roads. We'll get to that in Pompeii.
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