//A Month in (Mostly) Rome – Nov 2018
Picture the WorldDecember 23, 2018

A Month in (Mostly) Rome – Nov 2018

This long post is not even half of the things we spent our time enjoying in Rome, just the ones that came out nice in pictures. Not to mention the Colloseum, the Vatican, and the food, which will get their own posts.

En route. Vancouver to Montreal to Istanbul to Rome. Call it 24 hours in airports and airplanes. Worth at least one picture.
The River Tiber. ‘nuff said
Trajan’s Column. And a bus. You read about this kind of history (the column). Then you’re here. And so we travel.
The Parthenon. Somewhat diminished from the outside, sandwiched as it is between aging apartment blocks.
Indescribably grand on the inside. No single picture can capture it. Here’s our best attempt.
Westering sun over the Imperial Roman Forum.
Orto Botanico — botanical gardens in the Travestere district. 30 acres of gardens easily walked to, as is everything.
The long path to the top of the garden.
Be like bamboo. I think Yoda said that. Or maybe I got it from a Panda Express fortune cookie. Memory of knowledge long outlasts the memory of its provenance. And so propaganda works.
The Trevi Fountain. Sure, Paninni did a fine job and all, but could he get a picture like this while battling a thousand tourists with selfie sticks. I think not.
The old racetrack at the Borghese Gardens. We enjoyed a self-catered picnic lunch here.
Romance or bumper boats. It depends on the size of the “lake.”
Piazza Navona. Here’s the funny thing. People don’t sit around these historical treasures looking at them, they sit with their backs to them, looking at the selfies they took of themselves in front of the historical treasures. Something’s changed.
The Spanish Steps. We visited frequently, as a route to the Borghese Gardens, for its sunsets, and for the Nespresso store at the base of them. But that’s another story.
Speaking of sunsets from above the Spanish Steps: voilà.

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