Protect and Serve

Trevi Fountain is quite a gathering place, even in November. Most of the popular sites had a healthy police presence - Piazza Navona had two trucks, one a Land Rover type, the other a SWAT-type vehicle with slightly under a dozen serious looking young commando-type police. Trevi, on the other hand, had one lone cop strolling around chatting on a cell phone.

Standing in every possible spot to get a good picture, I walked down into the lower area closest to the water and noticed as I looked up at the crowd above me, that nearly every other person had a little spoon in their mouth having a taste of gelatto