Brilliant Corners

It was fun to read (and see) Christoph Niemann’s visual story on his kids' infatuation with the New York subway system, because my own kids got a huge kick out of riding the subway when we were in Rome this March. We weren’t there long enough, or rode the subway enough times, for Clara and Eliot to memorize the routes and stops, but they enjoyed it enough. My kids are so used to riding in cars that taking any kind of public transportation is a truly unusual treat.

Here’s Eliot demonstrating his subway pole holding technique from one of our rides on the Rome subway: