Roman Chicken
Me again with some more Rome goodness!!
Did a huge amount of walking around Rome, deliberately getting lost to see what I could find (oh yea, and got not so deliberately lost too!!).
I went and saw the Pantheon, which is such an interesting shape, and I learned that when it was built you used to have to get to it by a set of stairs, however the ground level around it has risen so much that they are not needed anymore – how cool is that! I wonder if future traveling chicken will need steps going down if the surrounding ground continues its rise?
Next, I checked out the Trevi fountain, I had no idea that it was in such an enclosed space, it was during the day so I didn’t get it to myself (and I was running out of mornings!). This was all my camera was able to capture (oh and it’s not straight because Yas was holding the camera up as high as she could, she’s not the tallest person in the world, and there were people infront – I am just glad that she actually got some of me in it – hehehe):
The next day I went on the archeological bus tour, too much to fit in a day, however, I did see the aqueducts, and while cool and important, they weren’t as impressive as I thought they would be (I am sure I had seen photos of better than where we went!), anyway it was a bit rushed and I forgot to take some photos…. the last photo I took in Rome was of a very important place, a place that once you have been too you will never forget……… Yay, the best Gelato place in the world!!!! (actually I took this photo because this was recommended to me, and wanted to make sure it was noted that I had been. There was a very long line, a billion different flavours, it was very hard to make important decision like that under pressure – but I did and it was goooooooooood!):
So that was my trip to Rome in a couple of posts….oh yes, last night we decided to have dinner in town (pizza, we were sticking with the Italian theme), followed by a movie, completely forgetting we relied on a train to get back. As complete luck would have it, we got to the station just in time for the very last train (and when I said just in time, I mean running to the train). That was a lucky one….
I am going to stick my neck out and say I will be back to Rome, while we saw as much as we could in the week we were here, we didn’t get many relaxing days and there still was a tonne of things to see. I am still deciding about my favourite ‘really big’ cities – the big ones at the moment being Paris, Rome, Moscow and Vienna (which scrapes in). I think I felt the most attached to Vienna, something about it I just loved…but for sightseeing Rome and Paris are neck and neck….. we will be going back to Paris to drop off the car, so I will think about that some more.
Tomorrow we head further south to Pompeii, which is somewhere I have been really looking forward to, so am excited about that.
