Rick Steves, the leading European travel writer and host, ponders whether ‘Italian men macho or mama’s boys?” While in Venice, Steves discovers that men are described by the term “mammones” – those who are highly dependent on their mothers – and that “95 percent stay at home until they find a wife to be their new mother”. “Even if they move out, they come home for the cooking and laundry.” Read full article here
