rome II: the streets

     
My favorite part about being in Rome: the fact that everywhere we went, there was something gorgeous or ridiculous or both. One of the first nights we were there, we stumbled upon the Forum, and did not realize that was what we had found (fact: we called it the "Mini-Forum" until it became clear the next day that it was the real deal). A couple posts down the line I'll show you the church we walked by a solid three times before peering in -- one of the highlights of the trip. I loved wandering through the streets and seeing the way the city is built on top of all of the older versions of itself, completely modern buildings juxtaposed with the old. The subway system is not that extensive -- it seems that every time they try to add a new station, they have to pause because they've run into more ruins that need to be excavated by archaelogists, which charms me (since I don't actually live there and almost never had a particular time I had to be anywhere!) -- but it's surprising how walkable central Rome is. And the couple of times it rained/we needed to get to the train station, we cabbed it. No shame.