Notes on San Marino

I spent three days in San Marino, a landlocked microstate completely surrounded by Italy. The people of San Marino are called the “Sammarinese.” Travelling in Afghanistan is hard, but writing about Afghanistan is easy. If you are a white person in a place like Afghanistan, interesting things will happen to you. You don’t even have to do anything. Just stand on a street corner and strangers will stare at you and walk up to you and introduce themselves and shake your hand and offer you tea and food and show you around the city and you’ll find that it is harder to avoid getting into writing-worthy traveler adventures than to find them. The European microstates of San Marino, Liechtenstein, Monaco, and Andorra have the opposite dynamic from a travel perspective. They are beautiful, wealthy, safe, lovely countries squarely rooted in one of the most beautiful, wealthy, safe, and lovely regions in the world. Hence, they are some of the most pleasantly boring/boringly pleasant countries in…

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