[BrodiKennedy]

Our reality and necessity is the pause.

In my town you will be fined if your keep your shop open during those ours.

If you walk through the steets of my town at 13.00 you hear dishes clattering from the windows... you see every trattoria full... the coffee bars buzzing.

It is recess. We've been let out from school. It's communal. Wheather you are a construction worker or an office worker or shop owner you have your daily pause.

And traffic slows. The town gets quiet.

I often take a short nap after lunch.

Offices resume at 14.30. Some at 15.00. Shops at 16.00.

At 16:00 you hear the gates to the shops being lifted and the day resumes. Offices work until around 19.00... shops until 19.30.

This is the true Tuscan lifestyle. Tourists will have to wait a couple of hours to get their post cards.

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