Second day in rome

*To catch up on all the past posts about Italy, or start from the beginning, here are links in order.  Tuscany: Arriving in Italy, Arriving in Tuscany, Day 1 – Cooking in Tuscany, Day 2 – Florence, Day 3 – Siena, Day 4 – San Gimignano, Day 5 – Spello and Assisi, Day 6 – Perugia, Day 7 – leaving Tuscany, Rome: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.*

Back to blogging about italy, the second day in rome we took it a little easier.  the pace was more relaxed, and we mostly just walked around and looked around the city.

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ever present tea break

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and lunch

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needless to say, i haven’t gone hungry on this trip if you thought i was.

while i was trying to take a picture of a the entire row of smart cars, ANOTHER smart car drove into the picture.

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Ah HA!  the ruins from yesterday, here are the cats!

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EPIC

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more ruins

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this was very impressive.  it looks like the marble column had a failure, and they filled it in with bricks. i really like that.

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from the da-vinci museum.  i guess he invented the first band saw?

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some interesting self portraits.  i like them.

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and after the museum, the heavens opened up on us.  torrentially.

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that evening noa and i went out and ate at a pizza restaurant called dar poetra, i think.  probably the best pizza i had had up to date in italy.  but it was neapolitan style.  soooo good.  and the little restaurant was so quaint, and had good wine.  i think its my second favourite pizza place now in the world.

one more day in rome to go!