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“Oh yes, our apartment looked like a mouse hole but we eat like kings!” |
We had an apartment in Rome two blocks away from the Colosseum!! A one bedroom whole in the wall that was literally falling apart. It was a fine basement apartment, other then the mold and fur growing up the walls, but it had a kitchen and it was home. In the ten days we were in Rome we eat out all of two times. We had purchased an Italian cook book in Florence and intended to use it. We made beautiful dinners and eat the leftovers for lunch. It was great! It truly felt great to have somewhat of a permanent residence, even if it was only for ten days.
In the morning we would shop at the local fresh market; buying our fresh fruit and vegetables. Then we would go to the baker for deluxe bread and the butcher for our meats and deli goodness. In those ten days we eat better and healthier then ever. It truly was an Italian lifestyle. A few dishes that were on the menu where: Red bellpeper Risotto with pasta stuffed bellpepers on the side, a beautiful full lasagna, and Italian french pressed expresso. Oh yes, our apartment looked like a mouse hole but we eat like kings!
In the mornings we would go for a jog, to run off these amazing meals. We ran around the Colosseum and then a few blocks to do loops around the Circus Mazimus and then home via the Roman Forum...ya not bad.
We chose two museums to visit, in my opinion two of the best in the world. The Galleria Borghese that houses a few of Bernini's sculptures. Apollo and Daphne, and The Rape of Proserpine where two of our favoret. Peter, who really just visits the museums because I love them so much, was enthraled in these Sculptures. They truly are remarkable and appear so real that you want to touch them to assure yourself that they are stone and not flesh. The other museum that we visited was the Vatican Museum, of course. The Vatican museum contains an astonishing collection of art that have been collected by the popes over the Centuries. This museum is huge! and it would be imposable to see everything. Therefore you make your way to the big stuff. First there is Raphael's rooms, my favorite is in the pope's studio and is called 'The School of Athens'. This is a representation of the triumph of scientific truth with all the great minds represented. Plato and Aristotle are in the center discussing philosophy. Raphael even added a portrait of Michelangelo as a homage to the artist, apparently he had just seen the first stages of the sistine chapel and was blown away. Next is the Sistine Chapel, which is, as expected, just amazing. I feel the creek in my neck just thinking about standing in the great chapel and staring up.
We met a friend of Pete's from Tao's in Rome the last week we where there. Contessa was meeting a friend of her's and we had a great time wandering the city streets with a friendly face.
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