Today, at last, we acted like real tourists. Well, maybe not totally since real tourists would have left the house, guidebook in hand, by 9am. Real tourists wouldn't have been moving so slowly in the morning as the result of another night of eating and drinking and general hilarity to be topped off by Bob and Steve staying up to the wee hours watching the PHILLIES win game four!!
Anyway, at 2 pm, these real tourists started off on from Trastevere provisioned with a few slices of pizza to the Circus Maximus, the Palantine and the Roman Forum, must-see sights on every real tourists' hit lists. However due to our late start we were unable to get into the Colosseum and so we stopped at a nearby enoteca to enjoy a glass of wine and as Steve always says, "a little nibble."
Finally Bob, ever the fearless tourist, convinced us to take the subway so we could see how real people live. It was rush hour and real people and a few real tourists like ourselves were jammed quite tightly into a subway car. We got off at the Piramede in Testaccio and walked home to Trastevere but not before stopping off at one more very important sight--Volpetti, an incredible purveyor of all things delicious and Italian that is frequented by real people and real tourists.
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