Driving and Cars

After being surrounded by SUV's and well-marked streets, it is quite a change to be traveling on the streets of Italy. The cars in Italy are very small, and very maneuverable, which makes driving pretty crazy. I constantly am worried about my host parents running into a merging vehicle but they don't seem the least bit nervous about any other vehicles on the road. We swerve in and out of lanes and make sharp turns and still have not had any accidents. The markings on the road are more like guidelines than anything else. They're really there for no reason. People drive on the center line or make illegal u-turns and nobody seems to notice. The roads are also much narrower as well, and it would be impossible to drive anything but a tiny car. Buckle up!