The Start of our Roman Holiday

We spent our first day of vacation getting settled in Rome and just wandering around. See photos here (and here. I am taking more photos than I am writing.). The weather has been beautiful, and everything worked as easy as pie.

The apartment is close to the Campo de Fiori. We stopped by the market there and bought some cheese and sausage. We also bought some wine to share with friends who are in town for the next couple of days. We will be going out to dinner at Pier Luigi later.

The dinner at Pierlugigi was really good. There were six of us and we started with their special seafood antipasti. We had tiny fried octopus, tuna and cod carpaccio, squid and potato marinade, clams and mussels, shrimp salad, scallops, and the best of all: soppressata di polipo (Like an octopus tentacle terrine). After all that, we still had a main course! Doreen and I split a sea bream. The others had haddock, sea bass, and tiger shrimp. We had some white wine from Friuli that was nice and crisp.

Sunday we took the day to walk around the city. We started by walking to the Piazza Navona where we got a coffee and a coroneto. The barista was extremely odd, so we will not go back there again. Then we walked to the Trevi fountain and the Spanish Steps.

From the Spanish steps we made our way t the Piazza del Popolo, where we stopped at the Borsolino store and Doreen got a new Borsolini for her city walking. Nice, eh?

From there we walked to the Ara Pacis, and ate at the same place that the company had our client appreciation party – Il Gusto. It was great. We had a Banda Rossa prosecco to drink, and I had a tomato and buffalo mozzarella salad to start, risotto with fresh vegetables to finish. Doreen had a robiola cheese salad and eggplant stuff ravioli for her main course.

We then wandered back through town, stopped in the Pantheon, and ambled back home. Enough for one day, I guess.