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Saturday May 20, 2017 #
4 AM
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A final day of wandering around Rome, stayed closer to the hotel but still lots to see. Rained off and on for the first couple of hours (first rain of the trip), so we took shelter once in a basement supermarket (fine way to check out the variety of fish, cheese, hams, plus a spot where a woman seemed to be caring slices off a whole roast pig, smelled delicious) and a second time in a church. It featured the only metal detector operation we saw in the city, plus lots of marble and gold, plus a dead pope, can't remember which one.
Then some ancient baths now partially a museum (with a display on Italian "borghi", villages that meet some sort of criteria, three of which it turned out we had been in on the trip, one in Sicilily, two south of Naples), and partially another church, not much gold and no popes to be seen but interesting nonetheless.
Then a bite to eat, one last bit of rain so we ducked into a semi-posh store that seemed to cater to Japanese almost exclusively, and then meandering around a little to the NE, not many tourists, always interesting, a lot of elegant residences, a bunch of grand hotels each with a fancy little enclosed restaurant on the sidewalk. And eventually back to our hotel, which was actually on the top (5th) floor, just 5 or 6 rooms, impeccable. Picked it by the digital equivalent of throwing darts. Sometimes you get lucky. :-)
Then some ancient baths now partially a museum (with a display on Italian "borghi", villages that meet some sort of criteria, three of which it turned out we had been in on the trip, one in Sicilily, two south of Naples), and partially another church, not much gold and no popes to be seen but interesting nonetheless.
Then a bite to eat, one last bit of rain so we ducked into a semi-posh store that seemed to cater to Japanese almost exclusively, and then meandering around a little to the NE, not many tourists, always interesting, a lot of elegant residences, a bunch of grand hotels each with a fancy little enclosed restaurant on the sidewalk. And eventually back to our hotel, which was actually on the top (5th) floor, just 5 or 6 rooms, impeccable. Picked it by the digital equivalent of throwing darts. Sometimes you get lucky. :-)