The weekend started off with some rain but we didn't let it get us down! Robert actually went ahead and took advantage of the situation as pictured below.... This is on one of the many bridges crossing the famous Tiber River. This same river is the alleged location of the throwing of the twins Romulus (the founder of Rome) and his brother Remus.
We dropped off our stuff first and then promptly made the initial tour of all the inner city sites. As a warning, there are many party pictures in the following visual additives as well as portraits of Robert....
Robert in front of the Castel Sant'Angelo also known as the Mausoleum of Hadrian. Originally built in and around 136AD was originally planned as a mausoleum but was used as a castle, fortress and currently houses the Nazionale Museum.
The Tiber and some colorful Roman homes.
This is the tightly winded neighborhood that we headed to on our first dinner search. Lots of bars and tiny little corners.
The Pantheon! The temple to all the gods of ancient Rome...
Trevi Fountain was apparently one of the main three aquaquct terminal that supplied Ancient Rome with it's water. I think it is one of the many grossly over advertised sites of Europe, but my word doesn't disband the flock. I guess it was cool to see.... And we got our first taste of Roman gelatto so that definitely counts for something!
Ah, the old tourist on a lion picture. In the Piazza Del Popolo on our wandering path back to the hostel.
The Tiber at night, one of my favorite pictures from this trip.
Wooo, made it! Monday morning we were up and outta the hostel by 7:30, no joke, and with no alarms of any kind.
Come up out of a packed subway and this is pretty much what you see. Nice huh? I can't imagine walking by this every day on the way home from work.
This is the most recent installment of my Valetta advertising.
The Roman forum in the distance.... I think these are Italian Stone Pines or Umbrella Pines, based on my sleuthing. I am a fan and plan on looking into growing my own baby rock pines.
In the Coliseum right before a nice couple offered to take our picture if we took theirs!
TaDa!
Mr. Norton
What a tourist! Naw, not really.
There were all sorts of gladiator exhibitions and infos on how exactly they raised platforms of lions and tigers up into sands of the Coliseum.
The Arch of Constantine
More pines.
A lonely poppy
The bowels of the Forum.
Canada makes an appearance.
Excellent form, honing our skills among the ruins.
It's a plam tree, whattup!
and an orange tree........
A view of the city from high among the ruins of the roman forum.
Sometime in here we were getting hungry and searched out a small grocery where we bought some vine tomatoes and then crossed the street and bought some hearty italian bread, buffalo mozzarella and some beer and had a picnic in a little hidden away public park.
This is the chruch at the top of the Spanish steps. Maybe i just didn't understand them but they were also crawling with tourists. beautiful flowering bushes on them though... we had a beautiful sunny day on tuesday too!!
my car. ha perfect.
Saint Peter's Square
The line of bobbing umbrella extending 3/4 blocks. A rainbow on a rainy day.
VAtican City! We got on a tour group so we had a fairly in depth description for most of the main pieces in the museum.
Gigantic pinecone in the Court of the Pigna
GEt closer, common!
This is Emperor Nero's 2000 year old bathtub made of priceless purple marble. The marble is so valuable because it has ALL been mined. All. of it.
Raphael's School of Athens. Along with the explanations we got this was awesome!
LAst but not least, the swiss guard. Look them up, it's an interesting history. We didn't get to meet any of them, this was a stealth photo.
Great weekend. That is all.
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