All Railroads Finally Lead to Rome November 28, 2006

We finally found our way through the maze that stood between us and the Naples railway station this morning. The Gritty City does not easily release its captives.

It’s a short ride to Rome from Naples especially when you are sitting across from two Italian Grandmothers that went on and on talking about who knows what and then pulled out two of the best looking and smelling sandwiches ever. Luckily as my hunger was taking over and I was about to pounce on grandmother number 1’s sandwich we pulled into Rome.

It was a short walk to our hotel and it is one of the nicer we have stayed in. This being the last stop on the Davis East West Expedition we thought to end on a high note. After checking in we had lunch at a restaurant down the street and then backtracked to the train station. The metro also stops here so we bought a seven day metro pass and took our first ride under the streets of Rome. To get acquainted with the city we thought we would go see the Trevi Fountain. Just two stops and a ten minute walk and we were standing in front of the famous water work along with a couple of hundred other people. Ten minutes, a couple of pictures, two coins over the shoulders and we moved on.

We had seen an advertisement about two theaters that show movies in their original language so we started the search. What we have found in Italy is street addresses can be difficult to locate. The street numbering systems are not what we are used to and don’t seem to follow a standard method. We finally found both theaters just to find that no English movies were being shown. Oh well, more of the city covered.

Back at the hotel and surprise of surprises our TV had English movies. Bad ones but this is the first English TV beside CNN and BBC that we have seen in months. So if you’ll excuse me I’m going to watch a movie.