Well, despite the bit of bad news we received today, we did still manage to walk around a large portion of old Rome. It is amazing to travel along the little side streets, it looks just like the pictures, with narrow roads and tall buildings, even clothes hanging on clothes lines from window to window!
The highlight was probably the Pantheon. It is in the Piazza Della Rotunda and when you first walk into this large open plaza, you can’t help but be drawn to this huge, extremely well preserved ancient building. There are scores of people milling about, taking pictures and sitting within history. We of course joined them. What’s looks fun too in the plaza is that there are several cafés and restaurants right there, where you can enjoy a meal or snack out on the patio, all the while gazing upon the Pantheon.
We also managed to make it to Trevi Fountain, which is amazing and beautiful. We hear that it’s even better at night, so we need to make another trip over there, but today, we just hit the wall here. Took some pictures, bought some wine, and headed back to the penseone for a nap (which ended up being 3 hours of drop-dead deep sleep).
We went to a little restaurante in Campo De Fiori, where we are staying, for supper. Had amazing an caprese salad and some delicious pasta with a creamy red sauce. I don’t think we can ever visit Olive Garden or Buca di Bepo’s again. Amazing!
Well, we are now up at 2:30am Rome time, since we slept too much today. I’ll think we’ll watch King Kong now. More updates to follow!
The highlight was probably the Pantheon. It is in the Piazza Della Rotunda and when you first walk into this large open plaza, you can’t help but be drawn to this huge, extremely well preserved ancient building. There are scores of people milling about, taking pictures and sitting within history. We of course joined them. What’s looks fun too in the plaza is that there are several cafés and restaurants right there, where you can enjoy a meal or snack out on the patio, all the while gazing upon the Pantheon.
We also managed to make it to Trevi Fountain, which is amazing and beautiful. We hear that it’s even better at night, so we need to make another trip over there, but today, we just hit the wall here. Took some pictures, bought some wine, and headed back to the penseone for a nap (which ended up being 3 hours of drop-dead deep sleep).
We went to a little restaurante in Campo De Fiori, where we are staying, for supper. Had amazing an caprese salad and some delicious pasta with a creamy red sauce. I don’t think we can ever visit Olive Garden or Buca di Bepo’s again. Amazing!
Well, we are now up at 2:30am Rome time, since we slept too much today. I’ll think we’ll watch King Kong now. More updates to follow!
1 comment:
Been there, done that! I love you guys, and I miss you! Tell Mex his game chair looks great in the mini great room! Have some cibo buono(good food) for me! Love you again.
A to da J !
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