We have arrived in Rome following our six and half hour train trip from Reggio Calabria. We are revisiting some of the best and seeing many new places.
Today we saw several churches including St Bernardo with paintings and sculptures by Bernini, the President's Palace and a new museum - Mercati di Traiano located next to the Forum that provides an overview of the Forum. It includes many objects that were discovered as late as 2006 in the Forum area. It incorporates Trajan's Market, a 3 storey supermarket built by the ancient Romans.
We have also revisited the Roman Forum with its wonderful sequence of ruins but some of the buildings that we visited last time, are no longer open. We went to the Colosseum and whilst it is the biggest ever constructed, we still have a soft spot for El Jem in Tunisia.
We were thinking of you today Helen...... Happy birthday. We have a bottle of bubbly to toast you very soon. Pity you are not here to share it.
2 comments:
The Romans built a 3 story supermarket? Wow!
Am off to the Hunter tonight for a long weekend with a friend. Not as exotic as Rome, but you take what you can these days!
Happy belated bday to Aunty Helen!
Snap, I'm having a weekend in the Hunter too. Oh that's right, I live there.
Love the idea of a three story supermarket.
Obviously last time you were in Rome you chucked your coins into the Trevi Fountain and it worked!
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