On our way out we learned that the part of the subway was closed. We didn’t plan on getting to far away so we didn’t really pay much noticed to it. Tina found a little pizzeria in her guidebook that was near the hotel. It has been opened since 1904 and was down a side street, again according to Tina two good signs. Well it must be good and it must be fore locals because it was closed. Not just because it was Sunday, but closed for the next several weeks. We heard that the Romans leave Roam in August, so maybe next time we will have to come in July.
Luckily on that same side street was another restaurant that was open, Restaurant Pizzeria Leon. We ordered a margarita pizza and a prosciutto calzone; again both were indescribable so we wont even try to.
After lunch we walked through a park where Jared was excited to fill his water bottle from one of the fountains. Gaetano told us that most of the fountains are fed from natural springs and have very good drinking water. It was great, in Jared’s opinion; it was better than the 3 Euro bottle we paid for with lunch. We passed a lot of really neat old buildings and sculptures on our way to Trevi Fountain. Is the large fountain featured in the US film Three Coins in a Fountain. Since the movie the fountain became famous for people throwing coins into it. One coin will ensure your return to Rome, two coins will ensure that you meat a Nice Italian guy or gal, and three coins means you will get married in Roam. Since we already have each other we only threw in one coin. The fountain should have been famous before the movie because it is truly breathtaking.
We walked a little bit further to find ourselves at the Spanish Steps. According to the guidebook they are most spectacular in the spring when they are covered with flowers. We snapped some photos and headed to Villa Borghese, a large park in the Northern part of Rome. We have to admit that the parks in Rome are not kept up as nicely as the ones we have visited in our other stops a long the way. The grass is not watered, so with the heat of July and August, it is dead and burnt out, and there is a lot more litter on the ground. We walked around just enough to see some statues and the water clock.
We kind of fell onto Piazza del Popolo, which was thankfully in the guidebook, so we could get some background information. In the middle of the square is 3,200 year old obelisk. We visited a church that was also in the square; the bells on the church were ringing so we knew it was approaching 7:00 and closing time for the church. It was also closing time for us.
We weren’t hungry, but we needed somewhere to rest our feet and cool down. Since our hotel room didn’t have a terrace and our hotel didn’t have a terrace, we found a not so Irish pub that had the Olympics on. We ordered an Italian beer, enjoyed some free chips, and watched the Olympics. Now Jared really wanted a burger from the pub in Nice, and before we went in Tina joked that he was going to get the burger, even though neither of us were hungry. This is where the not-so-Irish part comes in, they had Italian food on the menu, and even at that it didn’t look too appealing. Thankfully the beer was cold and the chips were salty so we called it dinner.
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