Pearls of wisdom: crossing roads in Rome

I'm learning a lot about Italy from my colleagues. One of my first insights was 'how to cross the street', which is a topic that fills entire paragraphs in tourist guide books about Rome. Alessandro has it distilled down to three simple things.

1. Pick a gap in the traffic and just start walking. They might toot their horn, they might cut in front of you or behind you, but nobody actually wants to hit you, so they won't.

2. Once you start, keep going, and keep a steady pace. The traffic will assume you're going to do this and pick their own gaps accordingly. Stopping actually makes you more likely to get hit.

3. Don't run. It makes you look like a target :-)

It works. Trust me!