Incidente. It sounds so much more innocent than accident.
Nothing like the prolonged roadway’s end to a long night flight.

Civil servants handing out bottles of water to motorists diverted from the highway to Firenze by the aforesaid incident.

A fitting gamble on our last day’s weather.

When the two collide, the hapless civil servant
Can count on getting looks from the government:

Estimated damage: 500,000 euro and a long time
before these ancient steps will move people again.

In a most jovial mood last night, our host Umberto
a) Jokes about Rebecca’s customary insalata e ravioli;
b) Laughs at me when I know the meaning of his Dove?;
c) Joins us (and the US?) in mocking our President Trump;
d) Makes up the most preposterous story in explanation
of the Italian wedding custom of a “double ceremony”–
the one applying to a civil authority five months before
the other one with religious authority that really counts–
in which our waitress finds herself with two husbands;
e) To which, later, Rebecca hastens to inform Ginevra:

One marito will prove himself to be more than enough.

f) All of the above, and so many more good times.

This is what thunderstorms looks like in Spoleto.

For the older children, like the ones
Awake outside our windows last night,
The highlight of the holiday will come
May 1 at what they call the COLORmob.

Here again, apparently, the object
Is to stay up almost all the night
For music and an extra attraction:
A coat of many colors on everyone.