Roma

We're back in beautiful Rome and loving it.  The weather has been beautiful, our apartment is in a great location and it's all good. Rain is expected next week so we're saving most of our gallery stuff until then. Today we wandered around the centro, walked around the Tevere and over to Cola di Rienzo just window shopping and taking it all in.

Trajan's column

Roman "gladiators" are everywhere waiting to have teir photos taken with tourists.  This one was authentically dressed in a matching jumper with gold braid on the sleeves :)

Area Sacra di Largo Argentina.  Julius Caesar was killed here on 15 March 44BC

A lot of excavation  work is being done at Largo Argentina and many rooms under the road are packed with found items.  The Area Sacra is also home to many stray cats.  There is a cat sanctuary alongside the excavated site and heaps of cats wander through.  They have a pretty good life and are cared for by local people and volunteers from all over the world.

In the Ghetto

We had lunch in the old Jewish Ghetto -fantastic fried carciofi, Rob also had pasta with carciofi and fish and I had pasta e fagioli.  Rob said that his pasta was really good but I wasn't that fussed with mine -still waiting to have the perfect pasta fagioli.

A sottopassaggio in the ghetto

The weather was beautiful and we walked along the Tevere

There were heaps of ducks around the reeds along the edges of the river

Ponte S. Angelo with Castel Sant'Angelo in the background

Friday afternoon must be the time for rowing- there were rowers all along the river -some of them were really fast.

Castel Sant'Angelo

Best wishes and good luck to Georgie and Cesar for a perfect day for their wedding.