Jon & Jen in Spanish Virgin Island 2010

 



Jon & Jen left Rome this morning and are headed for Florence

 
While in Rome the last couple of days they did a Walking Tour – Collosseum, Forum, Capitol Hill, Pantheon, Spanish Steps, had an early dinner and got some rest the first day.  Day 2 they did Vatican City, and a Rome Food Tour at 5:30 p.m.  Day 3 they did Borghese Gallery and dinner at Campo de’ Fiori along with a Night Walk Across Rome – Campo de’ Fiori to Spanish Steps 

 

The Spanish Steps are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top. The Scalinata is the widest staircase in Europe

 

 

The Colosseum or Coliseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy

 

 

The Roman Forum is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome.

 

 

The Capitoline Hill, between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the seven hills of Rome. It was the citadel (equivalent of the ancient Greek acropolis) of the earliest Romans.

 

 

The Pantheon is a building in Rome, Italy, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus as a temple to all the gods of ancient Rome, and rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian about 126 AD.

 

 

 

The Sistine Chapel is a large and renowned chapel of the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in the Vatican City.

 

The Vatican

 

Vatican City, officially Vatican City State, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome. It has an area of approximately 44 hectares, and a population of around 840.

 

 

The Borghese Gallery is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. It is a building that was from the first integral with its gardens, nowadays considered quite separately by tourists as the Villa Borghese gardens.

 

 

Campo de' Fiori is a rectangular square south of Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy, at the border between rione Parione and rione Regola. It is just diagonally southeast of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and one block northeast of the Palazzo Farnese.

 

 Sponge Monster !!

 

Our sunset at Malory Square

 

I think all of our shenanigan's are finally catching up with us from the last couple of months.  Bob and I just couldn't get it together enough today to do a lot.  The only thing we did well today was take a nap !!  After the nap we decided to ride the bicycles into town just to get off the boat and make ourselves move the body !!   We walked a bit once getting into town, saw the Sponge Monster, and took a picture of the sunset.  We did stop at the hardware store and buy a basket for my bike on the way into town.  We also picked up a couple of more ice trays just like the ones Gary & Jayne gave us. They fit perfectly on the top of the refrigerator cold plate. Needless to say, tonight is not going to be a late night!