Rome is Amazing!!!

[anna_en_route]

I've mostly just been walking around because the crowds kind of scare me right now.

On the first day I threw a couple of coins into the Trevi fountain, walked round the outside of the coloseum, walked over to Travastere to buy some books ( any books...god it feels good to read English language books). I also walked round the ruins by the coloseum, saw the circus maximus and the smallest inhabited island in the world.

On the second day I walked out to the New Zealand embassy, found that the Canadian embassy had moved in and spend the next 2 hours walking round the same few streets looking for the street where they'd moved to. I finally found them, voted (lovely experience, embassy staff are awesome) and then walked back and saw the Pantheon, after that I kind of got a bit lost, found pizza (actually pizza is everywhere) and a gelateria with a huge selection of flavours, two gelatis later the heavens opened and a spectacular thunderstorm started.
I walked back to the pantheon to watch the rain falling down through the dome and then got pretty soaked as I walked back to the hostel marveling at the lightening.

I don't know what I'll do today, I honestly don't feel like I've got the energy for the Vatican so the Sistine chapel might have to wait for the next time I'm here, I might go and wend my way through the capotoline museums.

Comments

sounds amazing

[annabellediana.livejournal.com]

Rome does sound amazing, it's funny how i always come back home exhausted after a holiday, one would assume you would be more relaxed. well if i were you i would buy a couple of energy supplements and absorb in as much as i possibly can. what is your favourite thing you have done so far?

[(Anonymous)]

I think the hardest part of the camino is finishing and making the transition back to real life.. so many decisions to make after weeks of just walking talking eating and sleeping.It can be a very jarring experience. K