April 26, 2006
Rome Rome Rome
We have been in Rome for 3 days. Today I allowed myself to be scammed out of €20.00 in a rather ridiculous way. Enough said at this point. The computer keyboard is only slightly different than ours so that is a bonus. We have visited most of the top 10 sights in Rome. The overall impression is wall-to-wall people. Yesterday was a bank holiday, in honour of "liberation day"( WWII). As a result you have all the Italian tourists added to the foreign tourists. The Italians say that they have never seen so many people at St. Peters. We met an English lady who was here last year at this time, and she said there a 2x the number of people this year compared to last year. The weather has been great! It has been 20-24 degrees C and sunny. We had a little misty rain this morning, but otherwise bene. The food is great, and our apartment is likewise. I doesn't look like much from the outside but is very nice inside, and is in a great area, close to many of the attractions of Rome.
|