Modern Vespa

I live and grew up by one of Toronto's two "Little Italy" neighborhoods, Corso Italia. We are known for partying whenever Italy's national soccer team, Gli Azzurri, go to and/or win the finals.

Because of COVID the celebrations for the wins leading up to the semi-final win over Spain were very subdued. Almost no one out. It made me wonder if maybe so many decades after huge waves of immigration, our heritage was finally starting to die out...

Riding the Vespa during these celebrations was amazing because people really got excited when they saw it. I could hear people cheering, yelling "'U motorino! 'u motorino!" (the little motorbike!), and even one guy yelling "HE'S COMING!!!" when he saw me to warn his friends to get ready to cheer

Anyway, it's always fun to bring a smile to people when you're out on two wheels.
And it was nice to see some neighborhood friends I have known for almost 30 years come out and celebrate

Corso Italia, St. Clair Ave. W., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2021.
The Italians are still alive and well. Forza Azzurri, e mangia le mele!

hell yeah! love this city

There's never any shortage of things to do, but a lot of them don't really bring any of us any closer together. It's nice when the things to do in the city can be a shared community experience.

It felt a little weird publishing a sunny summer video of everyone out today (the day more lockdowns were announced) ...but I think we could all use more of that these sunny, friendly, everybody-together days, so I wanted to put this out there. It feels like we could use more of this kind of thing.