Today we don’t have a great deal planned so we are just going to walk around and see where we end up. We start off by walking down to Piazza Novona to see if we can find some paintings to bring home. This Piazza is basically where the artists sell their gear and it’s all pretty good stuff. We manage to find some cheapy paintings and we are on our way again. We decide to go over to Campo dei Fiori which is literally down the road. On the way we pass this bakery, Il Fornaio and decide to stop in for a snack. They sell some amazing cakes and biscuits and Kris and I spot these cakes that look a bit like an Apple Strudle type thing.......we think. We ask for one (to share) and the lovely lady starts telling us in her Italian English that they are beautiful and straight out of the oven. She comes over with one and grabs the back of Kris’s hand to put on the cake to show her it’s warm and keeps telling her “Beautiful, beautiful”. I quickly tell the woman we want two because I’m not sharing one of these little baby’s with Kris! We buy the kids something and we also indulge in a couple of varieties of biscuits as well. When we go to pay the lady throws a couple of other biscuits in for the kids for free. When we walk out we try the freebies and they are gold!! We can’t believe a biscuit can taste so good. We make our way into Campo dei Fiori and this place has come alive with fruit and vegie markets with old Italian men selling their stuff, it’s fantastic. We decide to hoe into our apple strudel thingy while it’s warm and this thing is amazing, I’m just about wetting myself it’s that good!!! We continue our walk and decide to head along the Arno river and up to this spot on this hill called Aventino. This hill gives you wonderful views over the river and the Trastevere area to St. Peters Basilica. The thing about this spot is it’s very quiet and not many people are here, a very pleasant change. We continue on to try and find the Bocca Della Verita or “the mouth of truth”. This is a marble face sculpture and if you put your hand in its mouth and don’t tell the truth it will cut your hand off (or something like that). So Kris and I are telling the kids on the way that after they stick their hands in we will be making a trip to the hospital to have their hands sewn back on and they’re pack’n their dacks. Tyler’s like “I’m not doing it”. We had a bit of a hard time finding it for a while and when we did find it we realised we had passed it in the open top bus about 3 times before. We leave there and we are all a bit shagged. We have walked miles today so we decide to walk home and the kids can watch a movie and Kris and I can have a good lie down. We get moving again around 6ish and down to the Pantheon for dinner. There is another demonstration going on (these people are always demonstrating) and the noise is unbearable so we decide to keep going and find somewhere else to eat. This proves harder than we think so we continue walking down to the Colosseum so I can take some photos of the Colosseum at night. The Colosseum looks amazing at night so I grab some snaps and we head back to the Pantheon. The demonstration has finished so we get some dinner. While we are eating, some busker dressed as a clown out in the piazza is doing some really funny stuff taking the urine out of people as they walk by so it ends up being a pretty fun night. We drop by our mate Valentino for gelato on the way through and then its home to bed.
I still can't get the photo's to work!
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