Ali and I just returned from a brief and successful trip down the street to Luciana's. We hunted high and low and saw NOTHING - EVVIVA!!!
That being said....... We did find something else!
We left this temporary apartment and as we crossed the street, I noticed two women standing on the corner. I casually turned to Ali and said, you don't think those are lucciole do you? (Note: lucciola means glow-bug in Italian, but it also refers to prostitutes but more in the sense of a saloon girl, its not always a strictly negative word and we just learned it the other day so I just practicing using it, of course!) Unfortunately, my joke suddenly became less funny because we realized that they were indeed Italian prostitutes who were actually standing on our very own street corner, two doors down. On top of that.... we overheard them speaking casually with each other and one was most certainly a man (unsure how politically incorrect it would have been for me to say transvestite, but it was indeed a transvestite....).
When we left Luciana's after finding no bugs, the less masculine of the two lucciole was gone.
Baci!
