Never Say Never, Volume II

Things I Never Expected To Do or See; Volume II:

• watch a man carefully place his Pomeranian on top of a station turnstyle in order to feed it from his hands (Florence);
• see a police force mobilized by segways (Florence);
• see a woman train her dog to panhandle by getting it to ‘beg’ over a small bucket of change (Paris);
• darn a hole in a pair of socks for which I paid a dollar;
• run, so as not to miss Act I of the opera in Vienna;
• stay in a room with a balcony over a canal in Venice;

• drink, for lack of anything else, cheap, warm vodka and water;
• ride on 13 different metro systems in 13 cities;
• invent a form of cribbage board using ribbon and safety pins;
• see human skulls and femurs arranged to form an attractive rainbow pattern (catacombs in Paris);
• take this picture;

• play a game of cards where the loser has to wash the winner’s socks by hand;
• eat Italian food in Korea and Korean food in Italy.