A Sojourn in Roma, Italy Day 2: From pasta to the Vatican - 22nd July 2008
It's our first (and only) full (-ish) day in Rome. We start with a gentle wander in the vague direction on the "usual stuff" (i.e. Trevi Fountains, etc). As we do so, we happen upon a shop where a bunch of blokes are making fresh pasta. A quick "posso avare un photo, per favore?" gets Nosher the chance to see real past being made. Cool! We wander further and eventually decide to take the on/off open-top bus tour dealie, which at least means we can cover more ground without having to walk too far. And so we head off to the Colliseum (for a daylight visit), then on to the Vatican (although the Pope's out when we get there), and back, before we leave Rome and head up to Tuscany.
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Just up from the hotel, we stock up on water for the journey |
A memorial to the struggle against Nazism |
Nosher is amused that street furniture still bears the ancient Roman epithet "Senatus Populus Que Romanus" |
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Pieter gets up close to a street cat |
In the restaurant/shop, fresh pasta is made |
Plates of lovely yellow ravioli are proudly shown off |
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A pasta-maker's tools |
All the boys pitch in to help make the pasta |
The four seasons, for 5 Euro |
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Isobel pauses, as Pieter visits a hat shop |
A market |
On a narrow street, the buildings are reflected in the windscreen and bonnet of a parked car |
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Buildings are reflected in a multi-faceted headlight |
Gently-decaying buildings, which, for some reason, always look cool in the Med |
A statue coyly peers around a corner |
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Statues watch over the square |
An iron fence is covered in love padlocks: "sempre" - for ever |
Down and out in Rome 2: a street-dude with shades |
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A guy in a great old-school letterpress shop |
Pavement art |
Another sleeping homeless dude |
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Funky 50s-style sign: Bernini |
One of a pair of bag-ladies pokes a smoking escaped coal from her pavement fire |
Pieter lays back on the top deck of the bus |
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Il Colosseo - the Colosseum - with its mysterious holes-in-the-wall |
Some "Roman" centurions take a break, with a fag on the go and a tin-foil tray of takeaway, just like off of the Roman Empire |
The back-side of the Colloseum |
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The Forum, by daylight |
The River Tiber, as we head over to the Vatican |
A herd of tour-groupists move as on on a tour |
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A mosaic of the Madonna |
The sun is like a star above the obelisk in the centre of the Piazza (don't mind the dust specks) |
A flock of Mexican school-children, in bright yellow, mill around |
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A photo from the single point at the focus of the collonade, where the three layers of columns appear as one |
Some dude incongrusouly drives across the square (well, at least it's in a Fiat) |
A pair of Vatican guards keep watch |
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A multitude of columns |
Sitting alone with a bunch or marble |
Four nuns stride across the Vatican piazza. One gives Nosher the hairy eyeball |
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Back on the tour: some Latin on a building - "in honour of Mary the Virgin, Mother of God" |
Many a shuttered window |
An accidental long exposure somehow sums up the spirit of the Motoguzzi Massive as they scoot around Rome |
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An old Martini sign | ||
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