Roman Holiday: Giorno Uno

Overall, it's been a pretty awesome day. After landing, we traveled from the airport, which is on the coast, into Rome via the train. The ride was about 25 minutes through the countryside into Rome's version of Grand Central Station. After a short subway ride and an even shorter cab ride, we arrived at our home for the next few days.

The hotel is lovely and along one of Rome's larger parks, Villa Borghese. This is the view from the room towards the park. The wall is up around most of this part of the city.


After a quick change in the lobby, we headed out to find a hop on/off tour bus so we could make the loop around the city and get a feel for where things are and make a plan of attack for the next couple days. We saw some ancient stuff (I don't think I fully understood what ancient was until today) and ate some decent italiano food. Here are few things we ate and saw today. More photos posted on facebook album. First the food.....
They sell wedges of watermelon and coconut on the street, so Stacey decided to dig in to some coconut.
This was half of our late lunch. The mozzarella was amazing...so light and fresh.
Scott trying to gulp down a double espresso to make it through the afternoon.
The trevi fountain was one of the few things we decided to see during our time walking around. It was an awesome site and the water was so clear and cool. It provided much needed relief from the heat. Over to the right there is running water that you can splash all over yourself, and we did!

We picked this picture because we were in awe of how many times we saw random ruins like this in the middle of modern developments or just on the side of the road. There are a few places in Rome where entire city blocks are fenced off and ruins take up the whole block. It's so interesting to see the more modern Rome in the midst of its ancient past.


Miles traveled: 4300 approx - via foot, cab, plane, train, and subway
Stupid American acts: 1 - having to ask the bell hop how to turn the lights on in the room