Brunetti was sure it was the worst sort of rotgut Prosecco and equally certain his bill would say it was French champagne.


“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

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