Italian train sleeping compartment - Avignon to Rome
Despite no common language our companion managed to chat to us for 1,000 kilometres.
Cocktail Party - Rome
Note the computer programmer in the tweed jacket (John Correa of Four Winds Software <72652.265@compuserve.com>), not fitting in at the cocktail party. He and I made a futile attempt to connect our modems to the phone in the hotel (in fact a convent run by Irish Nuns). It was a case of having to find a hotel somewhere in Rome with the phone which a modem could be plugged into and checking in, just to use the phone.