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After another wonderful (and hot!) day in Rome, we had to say goodbye to all the lovely people we met here. I really enjoyed the meeting and I actually got much more out of it than I thought I would. Because, I actually thought I would just learn a lot, but as it turns out, I actually have a to-do-list now, which excites me A LOT! I can't wait to actually start working on my specific tasks in August and start the collaboration with the people I met this week :)
When the one who had to catch a plane had left, only 3 of us where left: me, R. and L.. Both R. and L. will stay Saturday as well to enjoy Rome (ETH pays our plane ticket, so why not enjoy Rome for another day, huh?). So, we decided to dine together somewhere fancy in the city centre. We got out at the subway stop 'Colosseo' and then this is the first thing you see:
In your face!
From the Colosseum, we walked on to have a lovely view of the Forum Romanum:
Then, we climbed a lot of stairs to get an even better view of the Forum Romanum, but actually the most interesting thing at the top of the stairs was a very photogenic gull, that posed a few times specifically for a picture!
Rome just really is a very nice city! So many beautiful buildings and statues all over the place!
The food we had was really good too. So good I had to take picture of it (also because my sister like to see pictures of the food. And this was really good food. Did I mention that already?)
My first course: Prosciutto e melone
And I also tasted a bit of this: mozarella buffalo. We actually shared our appetizers, so everyone could taste everything!
You can see that I only thought of taking pictures after I was halfway through the meal..
For the main course, I had the classic spaghetti Bolognese. It was very good. Yum!
Also, I had ice cream as desert, but didn't bother to make a picture of that, because it definitely did not live up to the great ice cream HEAVEN standard that I had gotten used to the day before.
After fancy (and a bit expensive) dinner, we walked by the river and went to a bar for a drink. Then we took the free* bus back to the hotel. Rome is really beautiful by night..
* The bus wasn't actually free, but you couldn't buy bus tickets in the bus (which was written specifically on the bus signs. However, it didn't specify WHERE you should by your tickets then. We asked once at a shop, but to no avail. Then Y. said there had never been an inspection in the 6 months when she lived in Rome and took the bus every day. So, we started to call it the free bus to the city centre and we used it as such ;)
When the one who had to catch a plane had left, only 3 of us where left: me, R. and L.. Both R. and L. will stay Saturday as well to enjoy Rome (ETH pays our plane ticket, so why not enjoy Rome for another day, huh?). So, we decided to dine together somewhere fancy in the city centre. We got out at the subway stop 'Colosseo' and then this is the first thing you see:
In your face!
From the Colosseum, we walked on to have a lovely view of the Forum Romanum:
Then, we climbed a lot of stairs to get an even better view of the Forum Romanum, but actually the most interesting thing at the top of the stairs was a very photogenic gull, that posed a few times specifically for a picture!
Rome just really is a very nice city! So many beautiful buildings and statues all over the place!
The food we had was really good too. So good I had to take picture of it (also because my sister like to see pictures of the food. And this was really good food. Did I mention that already?)
My first course: Prosciutto e melone
And I also tasted a bit of this: mozarella buffalo. We actually shared our appetizers, so everyone could taste everything!
You can see that I only thought of taking pictures after I was halfway through the meal..
For the main course, I had the classic spaghetti Bolognese. It was very good. Yum!
Also, I had ice cream as desert, but didn't bother to make a picture of that, because it definitely did not live up to the great ice cream HEAVEN standard that I had gotten used to the day before.
After fancy (and a bit expensive) dinner, we walked by the river and went to a bar for a drink. Then we took the free* bus back to the hotel. Rome is really beautiful by night..
* The bus wasn't actually free, but you couldn't buy bus tickets in the bus (which was written specifically on the bus signs. However, it didn't specify WHERE you should by your tickets then. We asked once at a shop, but to no avail. Then Y. said there had never been an inspection in the 6 months when she lived in Rome and took the bus every day. So, we started to call it the free bus to the city centre and we used it as such ;)
