Piazza Navona - fountain
View from the other corner of our street
Corner of our street
View from the terrace
View from the apartment terrace Mark #2Early morning taxi to the airport - 6am left the hotel. The Dubai airport is huge - it took us at least 30 minutes after going through customs to get to the departure gate. Plane was a lot smaller than the airbus, but managed the flight OK. First time in an exit row.
Wandered up to a supermarket after dinner and managed to buy cereal and milk and vino to take back to the apartment. The view across to the St Peters Basillica is quite lovely at night from the apartment’s terrace.
Bit disorienting when we got to the airport in Rome- everyone gets off the plane, then onto a train to get to the baggage claim and customs. Once we got the bags (a big crush with people very pushy…) we had no trouble finding our lovely driver, (holding a sign for KEY SMITH) who whisked us away very efficiently and then gave us a mini tour on the way to our apartment.
When the Forum popped into view it was quite remarkable - Graham’s face absolutely lit up! It is soooo enormous and everything around seems in miniature. Once we connected with the girl - Melanie- to let us into the apartment, it was just as described on the internet - quite perfect…. but we will need to be careful not to fall down the gaps!!
Spent the rest of the afternoon having a bit of a wander - found ourselves up at Castel de Angelo and then came back down and found the Piazza Breschi around the corner from our apartment, and the Piazza Navona just one diagonal street away! Fantastico!
Discovered a little pizzeria/panini/vino/deli on the way and bought a slice of potato and rosemary pizza to share and some pistachio biscotti - bellisimo! The people were lovely and let us practice our Italian - very helpful and I’m sure we’ll be back. Found a little Irish pub’ that Graham thinks might become a regular when I am needing a snooze in the afternoons….
Had dinner in a little ristorante on Piazza Pasquino - just downstairs from our building. Spent a very enjoyable couple of hours over a caraffe of vino biancho, some pasta - spaghetti for graham and gnocchi for me - while we watched people coming and going - watching the parking was particularly entertaining!!
Had dinner in a little ristorante on Piazza Pasquino - just downstairs from our building. Spent a very enjoyable couple of hours over a caraffe of vino biancho, some pasta - spaghetti for graham and gnocchi for me - while we watched people coming and going - watching the parking was particularly entertaining!!
Wandered up to a supermarket after dinner and managed to buy cereal and milk and vino to take back to the apartment. The view across to the St Peters Basillica is quite lovely at night from the apartment’s terrace.
A perfect start to our time in Italy.
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