Dave & Meredith’s Travel Blog

We’ve packed too much in to give you a play by play of our trip here. Also, since many of you have probably been to Rome, it seems silly to tell you all about the places we’ve seen. Instead, I’ll tell you about a few of my favorite moments from our visit in Rome:

• Getting lost on tiny cobblestone streets.
• Eating dinner ai fuori (outside) and listening to everyone around me speak Italian.
• Getting shooed into the world’s tiniest elevator with Dave, all of our luggage and our B&B host Norberto (seriously, one person shouldn’t even ride in this thing).
• Walking down the Roman Forum on the same stones that people walked on 2000 years ago. I took Latin in high school and learned about all of this 20 years ago, and I’ve been wondering why it’s taken me so long to come here and see it with my own eyes. Seeing all of these buildings and roads that were built during the rise and fall of Rome made me feel better - as if 20 years really wasn’t that long ago.
• Strolling down the Via Appia Antica on a warm sunny Sunday when cars aren’t allowed to drive there.

- Meredith

Here is the view from our window at our second B&B in the Trastevere neighborhood in Rome:

- Meredith

…and the same goes for our blog posts.

There’s so much to do here, and we’ve been trying to pack it all in. That has left little time for blogging, let alone thinking about what to post. I haven’t even written down everything we’ve done yet, but here is the quick and dirty laundry list.

Things we’ve visited inside and out:

• Colosseum
• Roman Forum
• Pantheon
• Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
• St. Peter’s Basilica
• San Giovanni in Laterano (this was a surprise visit - we went in when we were walking by looking for a gelateria that is supposed to be the best in Rome - more on that in a subsequent post!)
• Catacombs of Domatilla (seriously creepy, except when the kids from Boston who were in the same tour group as us said, “hey, these big graves look like Bertucci’s pizza ovens!”)

Here are things we’ve seen while walking:

• Piazza Navona
• Campo dei Fiori
• Spanish Steps
• Vittorio Emanuele Monument and Campidoglio
• Castel Sant’Angelo
• Baths of Caracalla

- Meredith