What I love about Rome is how close together everything is. I'm young and relatively healthy. Everything is within walking distance. Today Aaron and I went walking from our hotel and went to the Trevi Fountain and then to the Pantheon. We took our time, I stopping and photographing every time there were Latin inscriptions, poking our heads into interesting shops, yet we still did all of this before lunch. We ate at a tiny restaurant near the Pantheon, where I am sure I made my parents both proud and envious. I ordered bruschetta, and it was like a parade of flavour in my mouth. I have never enjoyed tomatos more. So delicious. Speaking of delicious, gelato is definitely going to be a daily ritual. Yesterday was chocolate, today was caramel.
There are quite a few tourists about. One thing I like about that is there is an unspoken rule between all tourists, that is the rule of: if a random stranger comes up to you and gestures towards you with their camera, it doesn't matter if you don't speak the same language, you are obligated to take their picture with the nearest monument in the background. I have participated on both sides of this rule today. Love it.
Tonight we explored the grounds at the Villa Borghese. It was so quiet and peaceful. Amazing statues and fountains everywhere. The air was warm, the breeze was cool, it didn't starting raining on us until we were on our way back to the hotel.
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3 comments:
I can just see you two walking around Rome, throwing around European spellings of "favorite/favourite" and perusing majestic, ancient works. You lucky dogs.
Right now there are a bunch of Louisiana Street people at our house for this weekly, Monday event-Grill Baby Grill. I usually miss it, but today was Making a Difference and we were hosting GBG here, so success. I met people. They're cool and you'll like them.
Now onto feminist theory. I love you and miss you and am glad you liked the proposal work and cannot wait to hear more highlights of your Roman adventures.
That's a really cool thing about Rome, that the historic city is all walkable. The reasons have a lot to do with a shift of power away from Rome - with the collapse of the Empire, the papacy moving to France, the economic center of Europe moving elsewhere. Although the Renaissance was great for Rome, there was about a thousand-year blight on Roman growth. The Forum became cow pasture; ancient structures deteriorated. So the Renaissance is often built (literally) on top of classical foundations. Thus the ancient city is constrained in space.
Ah, the Villa Borghese. It sounds wonderful. (But read Machiavelli about the Borgias.)
Give me gelato; I'll take your picture for gelato. Cioccolato, per favore. (After the bruschetta.)
Love you,
kenn
PS to Elise: We're proud of your "Grill, Baby, Grill" event. Now go paint Kansas blue. (We had a great time with Hillary in town this weekend.)
I'm so jealous! Every day I read about makes me wish I was there even more(I'm reading them in reverse order to catch up). But I have this weekend in Norman to look forward to. I'll tell everyone hi for you and let them know what you're up to.
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