Rome Antics - Day Two

I grabbed breakfast at the bar below the hostel with my new kiwi friend Ty, not nearly as impressive as the hotel but it did the job and then went out looking for Sam's hotel. Found it, found him, and convinced him to stay another day in Rome.
We moved him into the hostel, went to buy some train tickets to Macerata for the next day, and then made our way to the Villa Bourghese. Did some wandering in the park, got some lunch (and of course more gelato) and then realized we were thoroughly lost when we found ourselves walking towards a tunnel with speeding cars coming out it on our way to the Spanish steps.

We found our way eventually, and spent some time cooling off in the church at the top of the steps. On our way down we had Italian friendship bracelets forced on us by a super fast talking Italian man who somehow came to the conclusion that I was from Spain and Sam from Poland - it's still unclear to me how that happened.



With our feet starting to hurt we wandered back to the Piazza del Popolo and caught the subway back to the hostel for our now daily ritual - the afternoon nap.

We woke up, showered and headed back out toward the Vatican...but this time for DINO e TONY. What an awsome, quirky little hole in the wall! I did my best to speak a little Italian since Dino and Tony and pretty much everyone else in the restaurant clearly did not speak English, and got served up the best four course meal i've ever had in my life (not to mention the wine)...sooo THANK YOU SARAH! good call.

Caught the last train back. Met a drunk Frenchman who tried to convince me to go clubbing with him though he could barely walk, and watched some fired up American guy try to fight an Indian salesmen who was trying to sell him roses.

All in all a great day.