Rome III

Ciao! This is our last full day in Rome and we had no tours today so just enjoyed “puttering” around the city.
I only took 55 photos today – about a third of what I had normally been taking each day! (slow day)


My first picture is a photo of a sign that made Stu and I chuckle.
You’ve got to give these folks credit for a GREAT ad campaign for bike and scooter rentals!!!


I haven’t told any of you that I’ve been on a “door” kick on this trip. In almost every port on our cruise………I have taken a series of photos called “The Doors of ______.” For instance, “The Doors of Aix-En Provence.” So, I’m going to bore you with one of my door pictures from Rome. Some day….I’m going to do something very clever with all of these photos. (???)


Found a neat little cheese shop (“frommage”).

Inside, there were homemade ravioli’s in the cool case. YUMMO!!!


In case you didn’t know it….the streets here are narrow and the traffic is incredibly bad. So….the cars are SMALL. In this photo, Stu looks almost as big as the Fiat!


COOLEST FIND TODAY……on a little side street near our hotel was a shop that a family was running. You can see the son pressing clay into a mold here.

The Dad was the salesman, the son was the sculptor/potter and the Mom was …..well…..just hanging out today. It was a darling little garden shop with many wonderful small and medium size pieces!

He was making authentic-looking reproduction pieces of Roman pottery and small sculptures. We found two tiny things to shove into our luggage……..but would’ve liked to buy more!!!

I’ve included his business card here….as it was very old-world looking.

We walked over to a chi-chi area on Via Veneto and had a cool drink at the Hard Rock Café. Listened to a little music and then moved on.
We were in the same neighborhood as the “Spanish Steps” so we stopped for a photo there. A very busy place today. And it is near a very ritzy shopping street so lots of traffic through there today.


We are at the hotel now…packing to leave tomorrow morning. Our flight is at 11 a.m.. and it’s just a quick 22 hour hop and skip across the pond to come home. (!!!)
Going back to our favorite little neighborhood spot for dinner tonight…La Cabana.

At bottom of this post…….I’ve included a few photos from our “Rome Illuminated” tour last night.

Ciao for now!