Exhausting Rome

On our free day we (= R. and me) decided to see a little bit more of Rome (L. visited his sister, who happens to live in Rome). However, as we both had seen the major city highlights before, we opted to visit the less touristy (but still quite touristy) sites.

First we went to the Basilica San Paolo, because it was a 5 minute walk from our hotel. It was huge! And beautiful!


( More photos from the Basilica San Paolo )

Then we went to the ruins of an ancient harbour city at Ostia Antica. It was again way bigger than we expected, so we spend the majority of the afternoon here. It was great weather, but maybe a bit too hot, which made it very exhausting.



( More on Ostia Antica )

Then, to conclude the exhausting trip so far, we decided to go to the beach, but the beach turned out to be.. well.. rather small. Even by Dutch standards. So, the beach were a bit disappointing, but now at least I can say that I visited the Italian coast! Also, the temperature was more bearable there, because of the wind :)



For dinner, we reconvened with L. to eat at the restaurant near our hotel (because, as said, we were exhausted and didn't feel up to going all the way to the city centre again). I had ravioli for the first time in my life. It was delicious!



For desert, we went to the ice cream heaven. I had mango and (here it comes) 'lemon cream with wild strawberries'. I want to go back!!