Woke up (after alarm going off twice) at 9.45 we were the last into breakfast. Cheese bread ham croissants coffee juice. Trotted down to museum nazionale romano terme diocleziano. Museum on the old bath site. Even the front garden was stunning with more romano artefacts than the whole of Britain. Paid €9 esch for a 3 day pass to a couple of museums. Entered the bookshop then the display about epigraphy (writing) like. Impressive stuff. Then a stroll round a michaelangelo cloistered garden stuffed to the gunnels with roman gear. Then checked out the sculptures in the middle. Back into the museum for a couple of galleries of protohistory (the pre roman times). Top cemetery and ritual finds my fave was the hut urn - a little house for your ashes. Out of there and over to the termini bus station. Negotiated purchase of a map and all day ticket. Got the 64 to via del plebiscito and mooched to the stunning pantheon and the piaza della rotunda. Sat in the sun. Even stunning was the inside of this old church with a concrete roof with a hole in. Took two pics. Trotted then to piazza navona lovely sunny square with two fountains obelisk tourists cafes artists and sellers.
Then mooched along and took our lunch in l'insalataricca www.linsalatarica.it vittorio emmanuel branch. Top nosh. I had green and white pasta with cream ham and peas. Followed by fishermans salad. Jean had sundried tomatoes and cream cheese on toast followed by house salad (nicoise type).
Walked up ruins at teatro argentina saw the cats and the drunks. Jumped a tram down to the river. Got off at the other side on ponte garibaldi walked down to ponte cestio over to isola tiberina (island). Checked out this small looking church which was called chesa di san bartolomen (now a basilica) it was a wow. Despite miserable git sweeping floor I managed to snap the church and one of the roof.
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