Where There are no Politics If things go as they
seem likely to, the roads within their practical compass are limitless or at least bounded only by choice. And in this connexion it is worth remarking how very little a political situation affects the peace of these lucky travellers. The nations may rage together in print, but the people you meet on the roads take no share in these slanging matches. With the worst being said to, about and by our- selves, Italy, Germany or anybody else, you can, or at least you could until this year, drive everywhere you chose and be received everywhere with the same courtesy and welcome and genuine good feeling as you have always been. When sanctions were in force and Mr. Gayda was at the top of his form in virulent abuse of everything English and most things French, I drove about t,000 miles in Italy without hearing a word of it or coming across any sign that the countries were not the best of friends, as indeed in a personal sense they were and still are. International politics do not affect the traveller by road.
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