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Seeing the sights
Jun. 15th, 2010 01:53 pmI managed to get out of the flat by 3pm yesterday (it was 5pm the previous day). If I keep improving at this rate I'll be out of the flat by 7am on Friday.
TBH, there wasn't much of interest that happened (for which, read, nothing that would cause a GOM rant). Went out, saw quite a few sights, came back. Main excitement of day, getting on the wrong bus on the way in (although I quickly hopped off when it turned the wrong way, and no harm was done), and getting off the bus a stop too late on the way back. Hardly the stuff of excitement.
Ridiculously, for such an uneventful day, I took a large number of pictures. Part of this is caused by the fact that I'm tending to use manual settings, and often this requires four or more pictures before I'm happy.
I set off with the intention of seeing the Piazza Colonna again (I had rushed past it on Saturday evening) and the inside of the Santa Maria Sopra Minerva church and the Pantheon (both of which had closed by the time I arrived at the square on Sunday evening). The day had been hot, which mitigated against too much lounging in open spaces.
Unlike Nice, Rome is crowded. This is not particularly pleasant. I mean, Nice is hardly empty. But it's nothing like Rome.
( rather a large number of pictures )
TBH, there wasn't much of interest that happened (for which, read, nothing that would cause a GOM rant). Went out, saw quite a few sights, came back. Main excitement of day, getting on the wrong bus on the way in (although I quickly hopped off when it turned the wrong way, and no harm was done), and getting off the bus a stop too late on the way back. Hardly the stuff of excitement.
Ridiculously, for such an uneventful day, I took a large number of pictures. Part of this is caused by the fact that I'm tending to use manual settings, and often this requires four or more pictures before I'm happy.
I set off with the intention of seeing the Piazza Colonna again (I had rushed past it on Saturday evening) and the inside of the Santa Maria Sopra Minerva church and the Pantheon (both of which had closed by the time I arrived at the square on Sunday evening). The day had been hot, which mitigated against too much lounging in open spaces.
Unlike Nice, Rome is crowded. This is not particularly pleasant. I mean, Nice is hardly empty. But it's nothing like Rome.
( rather a large number of pictures )
