Time the Italian Way

"On Italian Time", is a short piece by Mary Morris that looks at the culture of Italy through their own special timing. The piece is both informative and relatable because as a reader and fellow traveller I am able to connect to her on the tourist level, but I am also able to relate to the Italian perspective she presents through her experience.
Her writing style is personal but intuitive, she says some very accurate and insightful things but she presents them in a very honest way.
For example this passage, "I am not a cynic and I live Italy. But I have discovered that time and space are relative notions there. I have followed signs to the Palazzo Grassi that led directly into a wall, and floated the wrong way down a one-way canal, the gondolier shouting all the way. I've read timetables that had no relation to actual departure times, and followed a sign to Verona that in fifteen minutes brought me back full circle to the place on Lake Garda where I had begun". It's not an overly romantic observation but it's an honest and accurate portrayal of the everyday, and this makes it relatable so that I appreciate the candidness. This might be due in part to the fact that I've recently been able to have the travel experience. Having had the experience for myself allows me to appreciate the accuracy of the reporting and makes it that mug more apparent and relatable.

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