Rome Express Tour

I said a few days back that sometimes you remember things being better than they actually are. Well, Rome may be a case in point. We were here in the fall last time around so maybe that made all of the difference but, in late July, the city is brutally hot, humid, crowded, and depressingly dirty. It has all the things I would look for when choosing a place NOT to go on vacation so is a bit of a let down from how much we enjoyed it before.

The boys (all three of them now!) don’t know any better so they are willing participants as we cram three or four days of sightseeing into the two we have available.

First there are the Spanish Steps…

Then the Trevi Fountain…

A quick drive by the Pantheon and Castel Sant’Angelo…

And finally, the Vatican Museum and St. Peter’s Cathedral, which are crammed to the point that you can’t really stop to look at anything for more than a few seconds (which actually works out fine since the two dollar radios out guide is using crackle like a New York subway speaker so we don’t really know what we are seeing anyway).

On the way back to the apartment, the boys spot a fast food restaurant called Jolibee and insist we stop there to eat. It is a fried chicken place but for some reason, with 10,000 pasta places to choose from, we also end up with spaghetti-type concoction that looks like it came directly from a high school cafeteria.

Maybe tomorrow we can really luck out and find an Old Country Buffet.