Time for me to go... not for a loss of an eventful morning. I walked all all over starting with Trevi Fountain (which was not on yet?!) so I hung around and watched the guy turn it on... how cool is that job... I turn on the Trevi Fountain every morning. I love doing things before 10am... there are not very many people just a few early birds. It made for some great pictures of the fountain.
Keeping with the fountain theme I headed to Piazza Navona and stopped at the Pantheon on the way. The Pantheon has been a church since 604 AD... that means it is celebrating its 1400 birthday this year... and that is just being a church it was something else before the Pope at the time made it a church. It is beautiful inside... the large cement dome is breathtaking!
I lucked out and got to Piazza Navona before there were tones of people and all the tourist crap sellers had set up. It was super peaceful and gave me some time to write some postcards. I loved the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi... I think it is my favourite fountain. I then doubled back to the Spanish Steps... by that time there were TONS of tourists so it was cool but packed with people. I loved the shops along the way. It was like I died and went to haute couture heaven. I swear if I ever win more money than I know what to do with I am coming here to shop like crazy!
I orignally thought it would be lots of walking to walk this all but as it turns out everthing is super close together so I decided to go back to the Pantheon so see about some gelato and then continue onton Campo di Fiori which is like an open market. There were a few glimpses of real Italian market-ness however the tourist crap stalls have taken some parts over. My favourite was a t-shirt shop where out of the corner of my eye I spot a Bart Simpson dressed in yellow, red, and green smoking a joint with the the words "Jamaica" undernear... yeah, I came all the way to Rome and I got you a shirt form Jamaica?!
Loved Rome... I threw some coins into the Trevi Fountain in the hopes that I will be back soon.
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