School's over !

As every big city, Rome too becomes more and more livable, when school ends and until it restarts, with an apex in mid-august. In this period, you need 7 (seven!) minutes to reach a spot, that usually requires you a half hour drive! 

And you can even choose the parking place that fits you better!

All this occurs, not only because the car traffic diminishes, since armies of mothers are freed from taking their children to school, but also because entire families, except for working parents, move to their beach houses on the coast until the end of July. Those who do not own one, rent one. And those who can't afford renting, can count on friends' invitation. 

In a country like Italy, where the average of children per family is 1.4, who's that youngster, who loves spending a whole month by himself away from his BFs?

But it's in August, that all big factories close for at least two full weeks, dragging in this "forced" vacation all the smaller ones that do business with them. Which means, that most of the Italians are off work in this period. And at the seaside!

Downtown shops, though, as well as restaurants, bars and cafés are kept open, apart from a few days at the turn of mid-august, and for this reason, more and more people prefer the quietness of the empty city than the loudness of an overcrowded beach.

Guess to what group do I belong? and what about you?