Roman (Romin') Holiday

If you have read my (much) older posts, you will know that we enjoy travel and with that, photography to record our traveling. In the spring of 2016 our family had a truly awesome Vacay, visiting Wales, London, Germany, and Rome. Where countries are listed, we visited different towns and cities. It was a glorious time to trundle around together, and the weather in Europe is so much more inviting in March than it is in Newfoundland, where we are still shrouded in snow and cold at that time of the year.

Rome was the one place on the itinerary that we had never seen, and so was an amazing experience. We stayed at a wonderful bed and breakfast that was very close to everything, Gialel Bed & Breakfast. I would recommend it to anyone! And contact them through their website. They say they will beat the booking website prices. Our second piece of advice is use the Hop on Hop off Bus Tours. We suggest the red bus, there are all sorts of them (we took one from a different company). With a 48 hour pass we were able to spend 2 days visiting all the major sights without concern about how we were going to get around. We only had to be aware of when the last bus for the day left the stop we were at. It was great.

A few shots from the Vacay in Roma.

Everywhere you looked there were ruins, either preserved, built into new buildings or standing sentinel on their own.

And of course, there were people everywhere! And we weren't there in tourist high season.

We came across this marvelous art store. This only shows you one side of it, but the other half of the building was full of papers and pigment powders and brushes!! Oh so beautiful.

The Da Vinci Museum was full of reproductions of his inventions, and his journals and notebooks.

Fascinating to see his ingenuity.

Also ingenious was the parking. This isn't the only example we saw of creative parking. Creative driving was also very much in evidence.

Below are just a few more shots of this amazingly picturesque city.

And what led me to tell you about last year's holiday? Well, this did. This is Vicolo Della Torre, Trastevere. This laneway in the old quarter of Rome, across the river, arrested me as I passed. Laundry hung in the alley, sun beamed in, and even this early in the season shutters and windows were open and plants were beginning to leaf. I wonder which tower the Torre references?