Piccole perle del Road Trip 2: The Exorcist

We ended our quick visit to Washington DC with a night stroll along the streets of Georgetown, a neighbourhood in Washington known for its quaint houses, its fashionable bars and restaurants and for Georgetown University. (For the Italophones or Italo-sympathizers among you, readers, Beppe Severgnini used to live in Georgetown while working as a foreign correspondent and, as far as I know, his former house is now a must-see for Italian tourists who have read his books. I personally didn't go...but I was tempted! I just didn't remember the house number any more!!)
Well, while visiting the area, cinema-buff Mr Steve Race became firmly determined to go find the STEPS! "Which steps?"-asked I. "The steps where the priest is precipitated by the hand of an evil spirit"-said cinema-buff Mr Steve Race. Before I began seriously worrying for his mental health (it had been a long, exceedingly hot day after all!), Steve explained that Georgetown had been the set of the infamous 1973 movie "The Exorcist". At that point we had to find THE STEPS, which didn't seem to be an easy task, given that: 1-we didn't have a guide or a map; 2-it was night; 3-I was exhausted, hungry and very little patient ; )
It was only by an unexpected stroke of luck that we happened to pass by a very steep descending set of steps and I could see in Steve's eyes (pretty much like Sylvester's eyes when he sees Tweety) that we had landed in the right place.
...to me, that was just a bunch of steps...not very well-lit, to be honest. However, how very much reassuring it is to watch a kid having fun while playing on his own...