Most of streets in Italy are quite narrow. Traffic are chaotic just like Malaysia. Italian drivers will make three lanes out of a two lanes street just like in Malaysia. So if you can drive in Malaysia, you wouldn't be intimidated by traffic here.
Most of the cars are small. Unlike Houston, it is rare to see nicer cars such as this new Audi TT.
We drove to a town called Greve in Chianti region of Tuscany and stumbled upon this delightful shop selling prosciutto cruddo. Prosciutto cruddo is known simply as prosciutto in America. For Italian, they differentiate between prosciutto cotto (cooked deli ham that most Americans think of as ham0 and prosciutto crudo (cured ham-not cooked). The legs of ham were hung like bee hives all over this shop. I think Italians eat a lot of prosciutto. There's always someone standing in line buying prosciutto whenever I go to a grocery store.
Meredith ate some cured ham too! Boon Hong and I ate a lot of cured ham for two weeks. We could not bring it back to the US due the US custom regulations so we ate what can. Actually, we were planning to bring it back to the US but we had to finish the 1kg that we bought after we found out we cannot bring it back with us.
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