Back at base, Rome, July 9, 2008, 7:39 PM
I am a day behind in writing in the journal, but I have just uploaded today’s pictures to the slide show at left. Rather than trying to upload a ton of written entries with photos and videos, I will just leave the entries here for the night and write back in the room at this time. Hopefully, future entries will exhibit more brevity without a loss of enthusiasm!
Coming soon, development of the following:
The lines are extremely LONG here, so all we have been able to do is the Coliseum, Forum (Mom only because I am an idiot American--more on that later), Bocca della Veritas, Trevi Fountain, and Spanish Steps. We had to shift to plan B for most of this morning to buy Mom decent shoes (over an hour in a Foot Locker). Stopped for a delish lunch at an outdoor café. Got a gelato at the Steps. Bought some GREAT jewelry--Indian silver cuff bracelet and STUNNING neckalce. Truly, Stunny Rooney. We can’t stop laughing and I am compiling a lexicon of catch phrases from the trip, including the omnipresent, “general _____ vicinity.” As in, "No doubt we can get bottled water in the general Coliseum vicinity" and "Mom, can I use this towel as a washcloth or have you used it in the general crotch vicinity?"
Mom's wind has subsided, yet mine is gearing up. If history is any barometer, something evil this way comes.
Oh, your blog brings back so many memories! We did the Termini, gilmpses of dirty Naples, and the circumvesuviana (graffiti, anyone?). If you get this in time and are thinking of heading to the Vatican and St. Peters, we avoided several blocks of lines by doing St. Peter's first, and then literally several thousand people had cleared out of the Vatican by the afternoon (and were by then waiting in line at St. Peter's).
ReplyDeleteAlso, in the blocks not too far from the entrance to St. Peter's (along the wall of the Vatican) is a gelateria called Old Bridge or something like that where I think we had some good gelato.
My gelato recommendation (really good in Pisa): fresh banana and cioccolata . . . have some for me!
--tf