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Waiting for the train at Leonardo da Vinci airport, after landing around 7:30 am. Got a surprising amount of sleep on the plane, all things considered.
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We stayed at the Ripa Hotel in the Trastevere neighborhood. It's been completely redone in a minimalist mid-20th century, Italian style. This is a view from the 6th floor (where our room was) down to the 4 couches in the lobby below.
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A view from the terrace of our 6th floor hotel room.
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When you fly to Europe and lose a night of sleep, you don't try to rest; you go out and explore! And let your internal clock reset in the sunshine! We stumbled across an open-air farmers market.
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Another view from the terrace, looking the other way.
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Typical Roman street scene . . . not from the oldest part of town, but not the newest, either.
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Motorcycles are everywhere in Rome! They are nearly as numerous as cars (which are largely tiny little things). Gas is, after all, nearly $6 a gallon there, at the moment.
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The Piazza San Francesco a Ripa, in Trastevere (for which the Hotel Ripa was probably named).
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Another view of the Piazza San Francesco a Ripa. Italians love plants; they cluster them on their balconies and on their roofs.
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A typical street in one of the older sections of Rome (Trastevere). This is probably a restaurant. Notice the cobblestones. They are tough to walk on, even in flats.
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I'm not kidding . . . they are REALLY tough to walk on.
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Old church, old window.
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Fiat in the foreground, restaurant on the left, bar in the distance. Typical scene. Good eateries are EVERYWHERE.
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Another little alleyway. We saw wash hanging everywhere.
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Madonna Assunta (Madonna Ascending), 18th century. This was just in a random alley, on the side of a random church. These beauties are everywhere in Rome.
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Detail of the Madonna Assunta.
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