They would be in Italy as well. Italy was in shambles. Even their most iconic sites were graffiti covered and dirty. The Pantheon was in good shape (my favorite ancient building in the world) but most everything else in all the cities was a sad dirty disgrace. The US Memorial in Caen, France for the Normandy Invasion was filthy and in disrepair. I was very angry after that visit. It was clear throughout the presentation at the Normandy museum that the US was being dissed. More focus was placed on the fact that the US was late in getting into the war, than the fact that without us, Germany would have ruled most of Europe today.

I think you do see stuff like that in small towns around the US. But yes, people are people and unlesss the locals take serious pride in stuff, it will be destroyed by mostly idiotic young males. By far the cleanest and best kept country we visited was Germany. Monaco was also pristine, but it's barely even a small city in size, let alone a country. (It's the second smallest country behind the Vatican). France was better than I expected, but not even close to Germany.

Brian

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