Visit Le Marche

Some impressions about my last tour in the US.

In Italy we usually live very close to each other, even in small towns. The only very-detached houses are the old farmhouses, almost abandoned or restored or even bought by foreigners (English above all). They were built in the middle of the farmland, so that the farmer family could easily manage to get everywhere in a short time. The concept underneath was the same of the village and the town, i.e. to get easily everywhere you need.

When in New Jersey and Pennsylvania neighbourhood I and Francy were impressed about how you need a car to get around, even to buy some produce. Let's say, in Italy we are getting more and more addicted by using a car, but still is something that you may avoid in lots of areas. Old people in towns take advantage of the weekly market and the pedlars: everything goes on wheels, from small handcarts to the modern vans. But still we don't need to rely on a car so deeply as in the United States.

That gave us a sense of disorientation: houses there are ten times better than here in Italy, but we are not sure we could live relying on cars and petrol...