Last night in Rome

 After saying a goodbye to our Contiki friends in Venezia who weren't riding the bus back to Rome we headed out bright and early.  We stopped at our last two Autogrills and arrived in Rome after about 7 hours thanks to our driver, Gennaro's excellent driving skills.  We then said goodbye to the remaining group and walked to the main terminal to meet our Rome B&B hosts Nicole and Luca.  They came on foot and we walked together to their place.  My first B&B experience was amazing thanks to Luca and Nicole, they were incredible.  They gave us a map and pointed out Metro routes and areas to go to that evening. 

We took off for a night stroll to capture night images of the Colosseum, Forum and the Monumento a Vittorio Emmanuel (that's us in front of it).  It was fun trying to find the right spot for the night shots and on the way back we saw some excavations in progress that were pretty cool.  We were hungry and so on our way back we chose to eat at the Ristorante Le Tavernelle 
It was really great, we accidentally ordered a liter of wine, but it was worth it. The amazing thing was the dessert the waitress recommended to us turned out to be exactly like flan but white in color.  It was delicious, maybe even better than regular flan. 
I really enjoyed the leisurely part of get back to the B&B that night.  We really, really took our time the evening was perfect, not too cold or hot, just right.  We stopped and took pictures of the Santa Maria Maggiore Church a really huge and interestingly shaped church, more gothic than most we had seen.  When we got back to Luca and Nicole's they were in the kitchen with two other guests rooming there from Spain.  We sat up talking about the economy and lifestyle if Italians, we asked Luca some questions about the sites and then while Sergio and Luca planned out our route to the airport hotel I took a shower.  We slept very well that night due to it being a Saturday the morning was so very quite.  We tried to explain this to the Spanish guests and to Nicole, but there is no describing how loud all the other cities had been in comparison.  Our trip out of Rome wasn't over yet though, there was still some more to see.


To be continued...