After coffee and some chores, we headed out for our day. We stopped by for a cappuccino at the neighborhood cafe and took the bus over to the Campo de Fiori to meet up with our food tour group. There were 13 of us and we had a FANTASTIC tour! As we wandered along, he gave us bursts of history lessons and amused us with his wit. We sampled suppli, pork sandwich with prosecco, limoncello, roman style pizza (2 kinds), maritozza (cream filled sweet bread), and capped it all off with gelato. What a fun day. Small world, one of the attendees is stationed at Aviano (the base we were stationed at) and another girl’s birthday is tomorrow – and so is mine!!
Our food tour ended in Trastevere – so we did a short Rick Steves walking tour of that neighborhood. We capped it all off with aperitivo at a local place we found at the end. It was getting chilly so we didn’t hang out too long and headed for the bus. We were about 1/2 a block away from the bus stop when the bus pulled up. We were so lucky! There were A LOT of people getting on and off that bus, so as we stepped on, the doors shut and we were off. Whew!
We stopped by the Conad grocery store for some dinner supplies for later. We bought two oranges and you guessed it! We forgot THE BALANCE!! We were in the self-checkout lane and caused MUCH commotion!! Hopefully that is seared into our brains and we don’t forget to do it again!
We came home and hung up our laundry. All of our rentals have a washing machine but no dryers. We have our clothes on a clothes horse with a fan blowing on them. (is a fan that much more economical than a clothes dryer?) I asked Jim, he said probably not, but they probably don’t use a fan when they dry theirs.
Had some dinner and chatted with Sophie. I am doing everything I can to stay awake until 9. Woof.
We need to get up and get showered and packed and out of here by 8 am tomorrow. It is going to be a nailbiter.
Our lovely VRBO host, Milena, is coming to say goodbye and calling the cab for us. HOW NICE!! We were just going to lug our bags several blocks to the taxi stand!
San Remo music festival starts tomorrow! It is televised nightly at 8:35 pm. This must be only for people who do cocaine. The rest of us cannot stay up that late!
parleremo presto