Yesterday I started sniffing around the outskirts of the Forum as I move slowly towards finally entering and trying to understand this massive excavation. So, I went to the Chiesa di Santa Maria in Aracoeli. Like all churches in Rome it is full of interest and art. It is built on an ancient temple and blah, blah. I love it all as you know so not much point in going on too much. I then went to the Capitoline Museum forgetting that it was Monday…bugger. I should remember that by now!! So back I go tomorrow. Then I got a bit aimless and wandered off through the Ghetto which reminded me of stuffed Zucchino flowers!! So, for the first time since I’ve been in Rome and counting my pennies after spending too much on the gallivant with Tull, I sat down to lunch in a Jewish/Roman restaurant. There is no better food! I had Zucchini flower stuffed with Sea Bass!! That was a really delicious, between the Jews and the Romans they know a bit about food.
I then wandered around the streets and ended up in yet another church. Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. This one houses a Michelangelo statue just sitting there, a lovely chapel decked out in frescoes by Filippo Lippi among other loveliness. If I was ever going to end up religious it would happen in Rome (not that that’s ever going to happen). I then wandered home.
Now it is morning and I’m about to go and get my coffee. Then I guess it’s back to the Capitoline Museum and more sniffing around the perimeter of the Forum. Tomorrow might be the day to actually enter!!
19 sleeps til Rose arrives and I have my little buddy with me again!!