Roma...continued

I've decided that I like Rome quite a lot. It feels like a real city that even if you took out all the old stuff and the holy stuff, it would still be a great city that people would want to come to...like NYC. We saw old stuff yesterday, which was pretty impressive. The forum apparently spent several hundred years buried under what the called a cow pasture until someone tripped over a column top and decided to dig it up. It amazes me what they used to be able to build with what machines and technology they possessed. And it's generally a heck of a lot prettier than anything that's built now. Today is holy stuff day..we're off to the Vatican Museum and St. Pete's after this.

In somewhat unnerving news, there is some sort of demonstration happening outside the internet cafe as I type. Something about military, but it's italian, which i don't entirely get. So we'll be scurrying in the opposite direction to the Vatican. Just in case.

And it's official...I'm coming home early. I decided that in the 'down' time i spend doing not a whole lot, i'll be thinking of all the things i could be doing at home, which would kill the relaxing purpose of doing nothing. So i'll have a day of nothing, and then leave on Wed. on practically the same flights, although i'll have a 5 hour layover at Heathrow. Scones and tea anyone?

ciao