Napoli!
Travel day but luckily a shrot ride. Got up early for last minute packing and went to Café Milano for our last coffee and say goodbyes to the sweet folks who work there. Called our first Uber in Rome and … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Adventure 2018
Market Visit
The Testaccio market was the highest on my list and here we were, all of a sudden, it’s our last day. Had to visit! The walk took us right through the Colosseum so we got a great look at it, … Continue reading →
The Big Three
Our week is slipping away so fast! Even though we’d seen them before, we couldn’t imagine missing the big three—Pantheon, Trevi fountain and Piazza Navona, so that was our morning goal. We passed through this, the Oratorio del Crocifisso with … Continue reading →
Satisfaction!
This was a really satisfying day. We first went to the church of Santa Maria Aracoeli. Not terribly noticable, with a plain brick facade, it is in between the Capitoline museum and the huge Vittorio Emanuele memorial. Teresa had told … Continue reading →
Rain, Rain Go Away
I had made an online reservation to take a Pilates reformer class. The studio was about a 15-20 minute walk from our place and looked fine. They wrote me back and were very nice saying they don’t usually take people … Continue reading →
The Rome Marathon
We had tickets for an 11:00 tour of the Domus Aurea. As we begin our walk there we can hear music blasting and an announcer and we remember it’s the day of the Rome Marathon. Using Google maps to guide … Continue reading →
Aaaah Roma!
What a city! We are so very pleased to just be here and our location is fabulous, too. Walk to the market and see the ruins of ancient Rome just down the street—it’s a thrill: First order of business … Continue reading →
Travel Day
Really nothing much to say. It took us 14 hours, door to door, to get from Porto to our Rome apartment, Thanks to flight delays in both Porto and Lisbon we were very late. Oh well–that’s how it goes. We … Continue reading →
Museum Day
We rarely take public transportation but today we decided to do it to reach the Serralves museum which would have been over an hour walk. It’s a bit west of here and close to where the Douro river meets the … Continue reading →
Porto Tour
I should call it the million calorie tour, but who’s counting! We met Pedro, our charming, full of information (and so cute) tour guide for the day at 10:00. Of course, it was raining. But after a minute or two … Continue reading →