I’ll confess at the outset that the topic for this month’s Italy Blogging Roundtable – driving in Italy – initially had me stumped. See, I’ve yet to get behind the wheel in Italy, for several reasons. I’m typically sticking to places that are easily reached by trains and buses and so having a car would be ridiculous. If I’m getting away from those easily-reached places I’m with people who have cars. And above all, I – frankly – don’t relish the idea of driving in Italy.
There are many things I love about the Italians, but the way some of them drive isn’t one of them.
I’ll also confess that one of the people who regularly ends up driving me around in Italy is the husband, who genuinely adores driving pretty much anywhere, as long as there’s an interesting (read: curvy) road ahead and no one around (read: me) to tell him to take it easy. When I thought about writing a post on dream drives in Italy, I knew exactly which one the husband would choose: the Stelvio Pass.
