This blog will trace the voyage from Teddington in the UK to Riverhead in New Zealand by Tasha, Bex, Rachel and Ivan.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Nothing holistic about this

Nothing new here, we have all seen the movies with , heard the legends of or seen with your own eyes the mad Italian drivers, typified by the scooter riders in Rome, but what we came across was classic.
We were on the bus (271) that takes you from a piazza near the Vatican to the Piazza Venezia and beyond crossing the Tiber during the journey. The route takes you down a one way, one lane street down the side of the river, and naturally our bus was headed the right way down said street. Suddenly we come to a halt, blocking our way is another bus, stopped perpendicular to our bus! How it got that way remains a mystery, but when we came across it was wedged on one side by a little blue hatchback parked on the left and on the side by a wall with inches to spare at each end. Being very resourceful in such a situation, our bus driver, along with some passengers from the stuck bus picked up the little car parked on the side of the road and carried it meters down the road to allow the bus driver to do a 10 point turn and manoeuvre himself out of the predicament he had found himself in. One had to imagine the look on the face of the little car owner when they return to find their car 5 meters down the road and now illegally parked across a pedestrian crossing.
If you have read Dirk Gently’s (spelling) Holistic Detective Agency you will remember the episode with the couch stuck in the stairwell which would not move up nor down, well this really was the same thing except it was a 10 tonne bus on a one way street in Rome… very bizarre, and certainly entertaining.

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