On a scorching June day on the Amalfi Coast of Italy, Chloe Madison and her boyfriend, Colin Pinello, stopped to have lunch in Positano, a glamorous town overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
With their refreshing caprese pasta plates and Aperol spritzes, they had one thought on their minds: ice water.
But they knew that asking for it would be too American.
While the Europeans around them seemed unfazed by the temperatures, she said, they felt parched.
“Water was something we consistently had to request,” she said, and when they asked for ice it was “just a few cubes.”
Persons:
Chloe Madison, Colin Pinello, spritzes, ”
Locations:
Amalfi Coast, Italy, Positano, “