After an inauspicious beginning in Rome with the 110 Stop& Go Bus – e.g., extremely rude personnel, a bus breakdown and then stopping and not moving for 15 minutes with no explanation – we ended up having a very nice day on our own self-guided tour of parts of the city. We were dropped off by the ship in front of St. Peter’s Square and hence the photo at the end of this post of what I view as the center of a foul source of evil in the world a/k/a the Roman Catholic Church as personified by the Nazi Pope and his morally bankrupt hierarchy. Given my love of history and classical Greece and Rome, we focused much of the day on the ruins of Imperial Rome including the Coliseum - which was known in its heyday as the Flavian Amphitheater – the Palatine and forum. The Coliseum is far larger than it often appears in photos and brought home the building genius of the ancient Romans. After that we had lunch at a restaurant called “The Glass” at the Hotel Cosmopolita where the food was great and the wait staff was almost without exception “male beauty” quality. Then we proceeded to the Trevi fountain and the Pantheon which is amazing given it’s almost 2,000 years of age.
Tomorrow we pull into Naples and we are going to Pompeii – again to satisfy the history buff in me. Friday will be a welcome day at sea where we can just be and relax followed by a day and a night in Barcelona before flying back to the USA.
There have been a number of ongoing minor irritations with the ship – Internet access being the worse - but overall we are having a wonderful time. Tonight we went to the ice show – the ship has an on board rink – which was very good even though the rink is far smaller than standard. The cast which was from around the world were talented and the male skaters very cute – a definite added bonus.
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