@ossobuco,
As a visitor to italy - part newborn lamb, part land use history, cultural history person, part seeker, part artist photographer, part food fiend - I have been gypsy beset at least three times. No, I'm not a fan of all that, but I've gotten some clues into it from some reading, and even in my beginning days got to be watching not so much re myself. I have some photos in my mind, if never in my camera.
- the woman in the piazza in front of the Ostiense station, or was it Pyramide, lying in the road with her arm out into traffic and then changing places as traffic changed with time of day..
- the women in filmy veils chasing the men with really good overcoats as the metro doors closed, for quick pocket picking...
anyway, I got over fear and started looking, beginning to understand.