Some Photos

OK, I am going to try to add some photos here:     The first is the children eating ice cream in front of the Pantheon, the second is in front of St Peter’s and the third is pretty obvious.  You will notice I am not in any of the pictures.  This is because I am always wielding the camera.  But we all know the children are the real stars of the show anyway. 

The Milk Bar

I just ran down to the bar to get some milk because we didn’t have enough for breakfast.  I know that sounds odd, but a bar here is not the same as a bar at home.

You can get sophisticated adult beverages at this bar, both to drink there and to take home with you.  But this is also where you can get a coffee shooter, or a sandwich, or a plate of pasta.  They also have coolers with cold milk, cokes, waters and beer and wine.  Plus at the counter you can get candy, gum, cough drops and cigarette lighters.  It’s a very all-purpose kind of place.  Sort of like the corner store, but they don’t have bread and eggs.

I’m probably in there at least every other day, sometimes every day.  The milk comes in liter size containers here, and that doesn’t last us very long.  Unfortunately, it seems to be the largest size of fresh milk you can get.  You can get 2-liter cartons of UHT processed milk, but I just cannot bring myself to buy milk that is not refrigerated.  It gives me the screaming heebie jeebies.

I know it’s good to be a regular, but it’s kind of embarrassing to be in there so often.  I suppose the solution would be to buy more than one liter at a time, but it’s so handy to just run down there, and so now we are right back where we started, at the razor thin line between being a regular and being obnoxious.

Tom took the kids today so I could kick around town for a while.  I like to just go out and walk around although I usually end up in the Trevi Fountain/Spanish Steps area.  That is my favorite place in the city.  I like to wander around on the little side streets and go in and out of the little shops, and look in shoe stores.  The children have very little patience for this kind of thing.  They like to have an agenda.  They want to know where we are going and why we are going there. They want to know what we will see, and where we will stop for ice cream on the way home. 

I enjoyed myself thoroughly.  Tomorrow Tom is taking the kids again (it’s a three day weekend for the students) so I think I will go to San Luigi to see their Caravaggios.

I have had a request to post some photos so I will work on that tonight.  Wish me luck and watch this space.