Friday, September 21, 2012

Rome Holidaying - Day 4

















Our last day in Roma before heading out to Pisa. We went to the Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain on our fourth day and window shopped for a bit in between. Bus 40 and 64 takes you pretty much everywhere you want to go as a tourist in Roma but a local told us you want to avoid the 64 for pickpockets, so we stick to bus 40 most of the time. Even then, we were watchful and you probably don't want to keep your wallet in your back pocket.





Pantheon - the temple to all gods, has a very interesting dome. I thought the building itself was amazing from the outside but what wowed both of us was when we got inside. The center of the concrete dome opens up to the sky, as you can see in the pix I took. Big tour groups start pouring in altogether at once and we decided to walk to this gelataria (where they sell Italian ice cream) recommended by our host. The first bite, I was speechless and by the second bite, I was in heaven! Cream, coffee, chocolate and chestnut (4Cs!), you can't go wrong. Calvin tried pistachio, chestnut, hazelnut, and man, whatever they did to make this gelato (that's what they call ice cream here), they were doing it right. There's a different price to sitting down eating and standing by the bar eating - cheaper standing, so we went back to split a panini - Prosciutto with a slab of mozzarella (a slab, they don't do no slice over here). Like the gelato, the panini didn't disappoint - if you are in Rome, you've got to check them out (Ciampini), not too far from the Trevi Fountain.


We didn't use a map today, just following the trail of tourists - I thought they are probably heading to the same place anyways. Just when we thought we were lost, we turned a corner and there was the Trevi Fountain! I wanted to go just to make a wish and toss a coin (if you do that right, you'll come back one day - supposedly).  I didn't do it right anyways but it was still fun to people-watch. Didn't linger in that place for too long because of the crowd. Bad news if you don't like crowd because this is probably the busiest place from all the places we've been in Rome (can't imagine when its mid August when it was super high tourists season).

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