Italy Trip – Roma, Roma, Roma!
by aaron on Oct.23, 2013, under France
I’m going to try out a slightly different style for this post about our second day in Rome. Again, I will upload the pictures later. You know the drill!
General Thoughts about the Day:
Awesome Tourist Sites We Visited:
More to add later (like descriptions)
Colosseum – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum
Roman Forum – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Forum
Palatine Museum – http://www.historvius.com/the-palatine-museum-735/
Spanish Steps – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Steps
Trevi Fountain – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevi_Fountain
Pantheon – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome
Santa Maria Sopra Minevra – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_sopra_Minerva
Four Rivers Fountain – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontana_dei_Quattro_Fiumi
Sant’Agnese in Agone – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%27Agnese_in_Agone
Sant’Andrea della Valle – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant’Andrea_della_Valle
Musei Capitolini – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Museums
Food:
For breakfast, we tried to go to Victoria Emmualle 2 square (or something like that) because Deanna had read that they had a market there Monday to Saturday 7:00 – 2:00, but we saw nothing of the sort. There was a weird lady with a witch-cackle of a laugh. So that’s something. Anyway, since we couldn’t eat there, we went to a small caffe place right alongside the square. Three Chinese people were working there when we arrived, which I only mention because I was impressed that they knew Chinese, English, and Italian at the very least. I got a cheap caffe ( 0.80 euro), Deanna got a small cup of juice, and we both got croissants. French croissants are way, way better. Seriously.
For lunch, we ate at a crappy-ish food stand in the metro station near the coliseum. We each had half of a pizza, and they were pretty good. Greasy, but good. Not nearly as good as the pizza the night before.
For dinner, we ate at a nice-ish restaurant near our host’s place. Deanna and I never really had an anniversary this year, so we treated this dinner like it was the anniversary dinner we missed out on. Needless to say, it was amazing. We had a caprese di buffalo, a bruschetta, a calzone, some awesome pepper and cheesy noodles, and two desserts. One of the desserts was a chocolate cake with ricotta cheese, and it was pretty good. What was the other dessert, you ask? Well, my friend, it was a tiramisu with five different kinds of berries – a red berry I don’t know, a similar green berry I don’t know, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries. A red sweet sauce was poured over the berries. I’m not sure what it was exactly that made the tiramisu so heavenly (but I think it might have been the unknown berries), but all I know is that I absolutely loved it! As did Deanna. Both of us greatly preferred the tiramisu.
