Up really early this morning we were of
to the train station again. As for breakfast, well our bed and
breakfast turns out is only a bed. So we had a coffee and pastry at
the station before boarding the train.
We're first class again today, which is
quite nice. We have two seats facing each other and a little table
all with no neighbours to harass us, nice!
The train must be running late as we
have stopped several times just in the middle of nowhere and had to
wait for quite a long time.
Once we arrived in Rome, we caught a
local train out to our hotel. We checked in then headed out to
explore. Rome is a busy little town. Tourists moving everywhere.
Our first thing to tick off the list
today was the Spanish steps. They rose from the centre of a piazza
up and overlooking a fountain and a they were quite cool, but there
were so many people sitting on them and moving about that it was hard
to get a good picture and sometimes even hard to move up them.
We found a little restaurant and had a
very yummy salad and pizza lunch before moving on.
Next stop was the Trevi Fountain. In
my head I had pictured a large 3 teired, circular fountain where the
water spits out from the top and cascades down through the dishes, I
was way off. The fountain comes from the side of a building and is
absolutely huge! It's ornately carved with figures and animals with
water coming from heaps of different spots. It is quite pretty, but
again there were people everywhere and it was hard to get in and
check it out from every angle.
We caught a bus then tram over to
Trevasere, to check out the medieval style town. We got to the river
and decided we'd have a drink down by the water before heading in to
the town. That was really as far as we got. We bought a drink each
and headed down to the waters edge. We found a spot beside the water
where the water was gushing over the weir. The sound was really
cool, and there were heaps of balls caught in the churning water just
at the base of the weir. There was a group of older people just up
from us with a video camera pointing at the water. We couldn't work
out what they were up to, until one of them took a blue coloured head
from a bag and walked up the bank. The next thing we knew the head
was in the water and floating over the weir. It was really cool to
watch and they were filming it.
We hung out here for quite a while
before deciding it was time to head back for dinner. On our way we
found some ruins that were in the centre of the roadway so we went to
check it out. When we looked there were some cats, just hanging
amongst the ruins, but when you looked closer still, there weren't
just some cats, there were heaps! They were sleeping and sitting on
so many different pieces of roman ruins, it was really weird to see.
Some were even tame enough that they were on the footpath beside the
excavation getting petted and fed.
We left the cats then and headed off
for food. We had a pretty uneventful dinner before heading up to
bed.
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