Thursday, December 29, 2011

Reminiscing Rome



Waiting at the Ciampino Airport for four hours was no joke. We were 'strapped' there because the staff issuing the tickets for the city bus made a mistake. Better to say she was given a chart that was with a flight schedule which was not updated:( so the 'wrong timings' were given to us.

We watched this sunset with a lot of migratory birds above our heads. It looked speckled in black spots but they are actually birds! It was really amazing watching this with the beautiful orange coloured sunset:) One almost hit me right on my face as it was right before I moved a step out. But no escape. I got some 'present' (ie birds' dropping) on my left shoulder.

With so many hours at the airport, we had another Foccacia sandwich;) Zannnie bought a new book about Rome called "Rome Past and Present, with Reconstructions of Ancient Monuments" - R.A. Staccioli. She likes it as it was a book overlaid with acetate illustrations, which shows how they looked in their heydays. This method of relating the ruins to their original selves is amazing:)

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