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ITALY: COUNTRY OF CONTRASTS |
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When you call a person "two-faced," be ready for a slap in your own face. Yet it would be a fair statement-and no insult at all!-to call Italy two-faced, since this sunny Mediterranean nation is a country of contrasts. The cobblestone streets of San Remo play off the newer, more cosmopolitan feel of Milan, and taken together they offer very differing views of one very variegated nation.
San Remo's streets are not only built of cobblestone but are small, narrow, and confining, harking back to the days of ancient Rome. But travel on to Milan and you'll view such sights as the electric train system…quite a different way to travel.
IP's Photo Editor, Bruce Cotler, who took these pictures, reports that on the day he was there, a young man in perhaps his twenties was amusing passersby by playing the violin. The fellow wasn't a street musician playing for pennies…or should we say lire or Euros…but was making music for the sheer joy of it, and to share that joy with his fellow travellers on the railway.
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