Tuesday, October
Yesterday we had to wash as we had no clean clothes left. It went very easily as there are 2 laundries
near the hotel. While they were washing
we went on a walk in the neighborhood.
Most of the stores were not open yet.
Later we visited the Massimo museum of sculpture. From the mosaaics I have gotten some quilting
ideas. The statues were laid out
cleanly, not too many per room. I
especially liked a bronze of a philospher sitting and took a picture of his
head. There was also one of Sapho that I
liked. My feet were killing me, so we
came back to the hotel and found a trattoria for dinner. It was already after 4:30, and we had not eaten since 8:30 breakfast.
The dinner was good. Garrett had a
thin veal steak and vegetable soup. I
had pizza. We finished up with gelato.
Wednesday October 24
We saved the forum and coloseum for our last full day. Oh, my aching body! It was really wonderful, but the paths are
mostly rocks and cobblestones. It is
hard for me to walk on them. Aparently Rome has been built and rebuilt over the centuries and is made up of many layers of civilization. It it a fascinating place.
The forum covers a huge amount of ground.
There are columns and rocks every
where. I don't know how they can
find out so much about them. Things are
well documented so we could understand what we were seeing. It would have been better to have had a book
or plan. Also we needed water and had
not taken it with us. A lot of cats live on the grounds of the Forum and in the Coloseum.
We ended at the coloseum with at least a half million people. Our tickets let us in both. We came back to the hotel on the metro for a
rest before dinner.
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