The stores seemed perennially empty. If you entered within one of them, you stayed before some minute alone and after you had always to ask; "Is there anybody here?", and only then a store clerk or the store owner came out of the back of the shop, and always never more than a person at a time. Coffee shops or Bar, where people could themselves be met a little, there were not.
Se entravi dentro uno di essi, dopo qualche minuto passato in solitudine, dovevi sempre chiedere "C'è qualcuno?" e solo allora dal retrobottega usciva un commesso od il proprietario, e sempre mai più di una persona per volta.