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Roasted cheese with honey, but let me explain myself. We started having a running joke about the 50s TV show "The Continental" which was shot as a first-person date with a suave quasi-European man; some of you may recall the Saturday Night Live takeoff on that, with Christopher Walken.
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Jurjen is really a master at this. Do not be shy, my darleeng; admire my Roman veal.
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Near the dome built as practice for St.Peter's, we take in the skyline.
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Anita Garibaldi apparently governed in Brazil, but is interned here at this site. I tried looking up what must be a compelling story, but found mostly Brazilian or Italian sites - time for some research! She looks like she kicked some major culo!!
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My Seattle pal Jen Simonds was to meet us on Saturday; she and I were in the glorious but short-lived Sassycats a cappella group together. So it was clearly a sign when we saw this street - Lungotevere in Sassia.
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Jurjen smiles hello on the pedestrian bridge from the Castle of Angels to downtown old Rome.
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Coming down the Capitoline hill, you can look over the remains of the Forum. Jurjen and I both had some Latin in school and enjoyed trying to translate inscriptions all over town.
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There was a massive line to get into the Colosseum so we walked around it instead, and tried to imagine it as it was, covered in gleaming white marble, with canopies for shade, etc. And of course, the lions, the fighting, the crowds...
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I think this is the most successful Continental so far. My darleeng, will you not have some more vino rosso? No? She is so coy...ah love eet!
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Self and Jen at St.Peter's. Farther over to the left, out of the photo, is the obelisk that symbolizes the non-Christian world, being completely dominated by the huge structures of the basilica.
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This inscription on the obelisk explains how it stands for 'impure superstitions.'
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The Trevi fountain, which was packed all day and late into the night with tourists and irritating rose salesmen. Apparently the Trevi is so popular because of the movie, Three Coins in the Fountine. It is lovely though, especially at night (here we're back in the daytime), and all the fountains and waterspouts of Rome are interconnected.
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