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Comic #1498

I've used another of my own photos as the background here. This is the entrance of St Peter's Basilica. The day I was there, there was an enormous crowd in St Peter's Square, and Pope John Paul II was giving an address from the steps of the basilica. I hadn't realised that this would be the case - it was purely coincidence that it happened to be the day we visited.

I learnt a bit of Italian on my trip there, though not quite enough to construct the dialogue here without some help from a (slightly) more fluent speaker.

Having received helpful suggestions from no fewer than five native Italian speakers, I have done a George on this strip and replaced my rather laughable Italian with something that is hopefully closer to what people actually speak in Italy. They also pointed out to me that Swiss Guardsmen generally have very poor Italian, if any at all - Swiss German being their traditional language of choice. So if the guard is still speaking bad Italian, that's the reason.

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