Dream Trip 2008: March

Great Travel Moment

This photo was taken while having lunch with my wife in an outdoor café in Portofino, Italy. On all sides we were surrounded by the decadence of the extremely rich. Mega-yachts floated in the harbor, suntanned women bedecked in gold cruised the expensive shops facing the waterfront, and then there was us, trying to find a reasonably priced lunch. My wife decided on a salad, and when the waiter brought it to our table, it was, to our tastes, a refreshingly modest presentation. As I bent over the table and looked through the viewfinder to take this photograph, I suddenly realized, but of course! the colors of the Italian flag.