Today we went to Villa d’Este in Tivoli. It’s about an hour by train from Rome, but way closer than Orvieto (had a faster train to Orvieto). The villa was constructed in the late 1500s with a terraced garden and many water features, all using gravity to build water pressure for the fountains.
Maybe we are just going to the wrong places but there doesn’t seen to be much variety in Italian food. Don’t get me wrong, I have had pizza everyday so far (one day was a calzone, close enough) so it’s partially my own fault. So what if the noodles have a different shape, they’re still noodles.
For a change, last night we went to a Mediterranean place and had shawarma. Yummy. Not an Italian or tourist in sight.
I decided to let that guy from Argentina be Pope this time, I’m not sure I’m ready to live in Rome full time. We did not go to St. Peter’s square last night. We saw it on TV and it looked crazy crowded.
I’m over my cold but Denise is still suffering a bit. She’s being a trooper and pressing on. We had different symptoms. I had a nose thing and she had a cough and a fever. The fever is gone but she’s still coughing. And for those of you wondering what kind of crazy medicine the Italian pharmacist gave me, it was Actifed, which you can get at Walgreens.
You take a funicular from the train station to the top of the hill.
Looking out over the edge
It was cold and windy