Some Everyday Things

Here's two things I pretty much see every day when I head to work:



My building is right across the street from a small pharmacy. The symbol for a pharmacy in Italy is a green cross. This machine is in one of its street-facing windows. There's a large selection of pretty standard pharmacy stuff, with the most expensive things costing just under 20 Euro.

I don't know if the nature of these stairs really comes across in these pictures:



The rise of these stairs is shorter than a typical stair, and the run much longer. They are a pain to climb and descend. One of my office mates joked that these were stairs for horses. Probably not, but really, what's the deal? You can try to take two steps per stair, but I find that a little too slow. Usually I take two steps on one stair and one step on the next, which is a tough rhythm to get into! Sometimes I'll take one step to a stair. Most people seem to follow the two-one-two-one approach. The weird thing is that the stairs on the other side of the train station are normal steep stairs!