IN ROME

April 28, 2019

We got off the Veendam about 30 minutes earlier than had been announced, always a good thing, except when your car and driver won't be there for 90 minutes.  I called and told them we were off early and the car arrived in about 15 minutes.  The driver said we would make it to Rome in an hour and 20 minutes.  He beat that by at least 10 minutes.  East bounder down, loaded up and trucking.

The room wasn't ready, but Stefano met us outside and brought our luggage in, took our payment, gave us the keys and said within an hour it would be ready.  We got back about 5 hours and 6 miles later.  We walked to the Church of the Holy Bones (a good story that I'm too tired to go into tonight, but you can get a start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchin_Crypt ).  Then to the Trevi Fountain and found it without all of the round about we went through the last time.  Final sight seeing place of the day was the Spanish Steps.

Then we stopped at an outdoor restaurant.  I had spaghetti carbonara and she had penne pasta with spicy tomato sauce.  We both had salads, mine was isalata mista (lettuce and stuff), hers was tomato.  We had still water and I had an espresso.

After walking back via Robin Hood's Barn, we got gelato and a couple of drinks (water and a diet coke) and are in for the night.  More exploring tomorrow and more detail about our doings.

TTFN