Saturday, May 31, 2025

27 May 2025 Rome: Lunch and More Wandering

 


We have been lucky with our eateries.  Either we know how to choose them or all restaurants are good in Rome. After fueling our tanks, we headed out for more wandering. We made it to the river and walked along the banks under the towering gum trees.  What fun!



The ladies with parasols would be happy


An old picture of the men out in the ally watching a match


Anchovy covered bread to start


Pistachio encrusted salmon


Carbonara 


A red sauce pasta


Home is where the wine is


Italy has a sasquatch!


All things woven


A cane chair purse


Woven cacti


A church!


That is what the chicken says


The small streets are the most fun to wander along


Great mosaic


Imposing structure, seemingly abandoned


Sisters walking along the river


Pull my finger


This was a regular sized cruise boat but the flood walls are immense


A very fancy light pole


So delightful


Note the runner lower left to get an idea of the flood wall size


The Tiber River


Oops, a hole in the bridge


So peaceful


Punny


Cute dog hitch


With dog attached


The ancients camera heads


Nice new shoes


No need to cross the street


Fruit or dessert?


Another fountain


Meep meep


We came across an African man playing this instrument


I believe this chimp is smoking a cigar


Classy neighborhood


We found a park that is for sitting down and resting.  That is why they had this statue here


Just a guy sitting next to us


He appears to be quite stylish


Maybe a jeweler 


The crows were bathing in the fountain


Territorial issues


Heading to a taxi stand we came upon some ruins


Roman ruins 


Right in the middle of town


 A tiny truck


    It has been 2 years and 355 days since we began our Migration

27 May 2025 Rome: Piazza Navona and the Surrounding Neighborhood

 



One of the places we saw on our golf cart tour was Piazza Navona.   For our first day out it was a great choice.  Recently cleaned and nicely filled with churches and fountains.  Also it has an obelisk!   Once we looked over the piazza we wandered the streets around the area.  We came upon a market in a square, a jewelry shop and many other interesting items.


A classy car in our parking lot


The first big fountain, the fountain of the four rivers


Lions!


Lion butt


The church, obelisk and fountain


Real Egyptian or Roman made?


It was real and was brought from Aswan Egypt


Horse


Horse butt


Scary fish


Mere mortal trying to get Neptune to chill.  Actually there was a man on each of the four corners representing the four great rivers.  Nile, Danube, Ganges and Rio de la Platte


It was hard to decide which river was which


The mythical beasts did not give us any help 


This figure is looking up at the church with disdain.  Apparently the designer of the fountain did not like the designer of the church


A figure on the church looking with disdain at the fountain.  The feeling was mutual from the designer of the church


He did a fine job on the church


Charles Chaplin


He got my Euro


The next fountain


A smaller fountain but much cleaner


Playing the hammer dulcimer


Horn blowing to accompany


A fine sunny day


We were sharing the square with a goodly amount of other visitors


A maze of building blocks


He is so sad because he is wearing diapers


A happy dog


George Costanza takes his money from the show about nothing and moves to Italy to start a restaurant


Fish fishy!


Octopusfishy


Redfishy


Meat hooks on the wall of a butchers


We passed a market and there was every variety of limoncello


Under the watchful eye of the Monk


It slices, dices and julienne fries


Everywhere is a bell tower


So many flowers to choose from


The Monk is still watching


Dogs...not for sale!


The streets were narrow and winding with a surprise are each turn


Ancient doors


Embassy of Patron Tequila


This bike has been parked here too long


A store of shiny things


Shiny item purchased


Mamma Mia, the pasta does not make itself!


Megandering is what we call this



    It has been 2 years and 355 days since we began our Migration