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And it was a full day. We did a lot of walking, and saw a lot of off-beat things. We spent hardly any time visiting the standard tourist sites, but did spend some time in the Piazza Navona, and walked by the monumental commemoration of Vittorio Emmanuele.
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I took the picture of Mark to the left because of its prominent mention of a “Whine Bar”: he organizes relaxation gatherings after work at his place, and refers to them as “w(h)ine sessions”
Among all my pictures for this day, there seem to be virtually none that are particularly interesting. It was a very gray day, with intermittent rain in the morning; that certainly doesn’t make for very good conditions for photography. But you’d think that in Rome Itself, the Eternal City, the very Center of the Civilized World, I could take some worthwhile shots.
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In his preparations for our one-day stay in Rome, Mark had arranged for another in-town walking tour. This one started in the afternoon, and took up practically all the rest of the day; on this jaunt, though, we saw a number of off-beat things. Our guide, Elisabeth Fuhrmann-Schembri, seemed to be particularly, perhaps even inordinately, interested in the foundations of buildings.
I took the picture above and to the right to show how ancient and modern mix so thoroughly in Rome; I guess they’re used to it there, but I found it noteworthy. To the left is the street sign advertising our approach to the Theater of Marcellus, and the next pictures to the right are views of the Theater.
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Above, just a couple of picturesque, or at least curious, sights from our travels with Elisabeth.
As we walked with her, we went through non-tourist sections, where it’s just regular folks living their daily lives. But then we stood above the Largo di Torre Argentina—“Square of the Silver Tower”, I suppose—which has lots of ruins from the period of the Roman Republic. That’s the bottom picture, and the last of those I took this day that seemed worthy of putting on this page. We did a bunch of other things, including going to an interesting museum that was at the same time a building from classical time; and then a final trip to the Pantheon, which I had never seen before. For some reason, I took no pictures there, and Mark’s pictures aren’t very revealing, either. Maybe I just figured that standard pictures from tourist guides would be better than anything I could do.
Maybe it was just that by this time, Mark and I were both very eager to be home. We would get up super-early the next day, take a train to the airport, and be on our way.
Pictures from the next day, first part of the previous day’s pictures, second part of the previous day’s pictures, third part of the previous day’s pictures. Return to the central Italy page; to the central travel page; to my home page.
