After back to back weekends of traveling, train rides, bus rides, getting lost, and eating lots of foreign food I spent a much needed relaxing few days in Rome.
Saturday, we woke up fairly early and grabbed breakfast at a local coffee shop in our neighborhood. I got a blueberry muffin because I've been cravinggg one! All the time I want muffins, unfortunately they are expensive here...so I try to stay away from them. I also found fruitella, which are comparable to starbursts...I was a happy camper.
I spent the day walking from the north side of Rome to the south, with lots of detours in between. We walked for probably a total of 6 hours, which is enough for me :P
We started out on our side of the Tiber River, and basically followed it down...sort of, not really. We found a little nonprofit children's museum, which had really cute pop art on the side of the buildings. From there we continued on to the Piazza del Popolo. Which is probably one of the bigger piazzas in Rome. AND Michael Jackson was there again, NOT performing of course. It was disappointing for me....
We got slightly distracted in the piazza and found ourselves in the Leonardo da Vinci inventions museum. I was aware that Leo (yes I just referred to him as Leo) invented a lot of silly contraptions and very useful ones, but I honestly wasn't aware that he basically invented every necessity we have today...I may be exaggerating, but I was overwhelmed by all his inventions.
From there we walked along the street parallel to Via del Corso (had we walked down corso I probably would've been shopping ALL day), and we ended up eating at a restaurant off that road. It wasn't my favorite, and the waiter decided to take some of our change without our permission saying it was a "tip"...except they don't tip in italy? hmmm. I had gnoochi, which I can't complain about :]
Then we walked over to the Pantheon, and wandered (where I got gelato and Catherine and Claudia got a frozen coffee drink)
After my much too big cone of gelato, I found myself laying outside the Santa Maria Sopra Minerva church, pooped. Haha. We people watched and finally decided it was time to get up and go to our final destination.
We went to Bocca della Vetira, which is ... something no one particularly knows, but they think it may have been a fountain piece. Basically, you stick your hand in the mouth of it, and if you tell a lie it will bite it off. Hah. You can find Audrey Hephurn in Roman Holiday doing that...I believe.
After checking that out we hung out by Hercules' temple, which is in the old cattle market.
I feel extremely silly name dropping all of these places, but that's Rome for you.
I managed to make it to the grocery store, and somehow spent the remaining 16 euro I had on me on what I believe to be a decent amount of groceries.
Finally, to end the day Catherine, Carolyn, and I met up with Jonathan and his friend Maxie (who is a doll!) for dinner in the Spanish Steps area...It was wonderful company with some great food.
Catherine and I FINALLY got to show off our famous bakery to some travelers :] It was such an experience because the bakery was lined up with customers to outside the door when we got there at.....11:30 pm? How strange is that? Apparently Romans love their late night pastries. Hehe.
Today was more relaxing, we went to a flea market...which okay wasn't exactly relaxing. It was such an overwhelming huge flea market, which basically was a repeat of every 5th stall. As in one would be leather jackets, then 3 euro clothes, then jewelry, then knock off toiletries, and then repeat. It was kind of silly, and nothing really interested me. So when in doubt, go get food. Which is exactly what we did. And after food, what do I do best? Nap...I did that too. Then you blog, and then maybe you eat again, and then you'll get some homework done.
None of that made sense, but I'm exhausted.
I need to study for my exam on Thursday.
Ciao,
Kate
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