It has been a busy weekend, a reflective one and an enjoyable one. Birthday Dinner on Thursday night with our friends Walter, Vincenzo and Larry at a Spanish Tapas bar at 79 Via Nomentana, Toros y Tapas. Then Friday night another dinner party this time at the Anatra Grassa (the fat duck), wonderful food with great wines to match every dish an elaborate menu of seafood and fish dishes prepared by Chef Giovanni Scomazzon.
Temple of Augustus, Ostia Antica, March 26, 2011
On Saturday we toured Ostia Antica the old port of Rome only 35 minutes by train from our home, never been there in 4 years but well worth seeing, in the evening we went to the Disco Volante on Via Alessandria with Brigitte and Collette. Today, Sunday it was lunch at the Antica Taverna Kosher del Ghetto at the Portico d'Ottavia, with all the wonderful Roman-Jewish specialties developed over 3000 years in Rome, no smoke meat or bagels here. We then walk across the old Fabricio Bridge to Trastevere for ice cream, the weather has been sunny and so Spring like in the last few days and now with the time change suddenly the days are longer. I have been spoiled by my friends with wonderful gifts.
Toros y Tapas, Via Nomentana, one of many wonderful gifts I received.
I am also reflective, I am at a junction and unsure about the future, I suppose we can never be sure of the future, the uncertainty, the anxiety, has to do more with returning to Canada and getting re-acquainted with life in North America. Maybe I imagine it to be more difficult than it will really be. Walking today in Trastevere, looking at the Tiber river, I took a long look at it all, we visited the Church of Santa Cecilia built by Cardinal Aquaviva and Santa Maria in Trastevere. You need good walking shoes for the uneven cobbled streets, there is so much to look at, to appreciate. In the last few months this is what I want to do.
In Ostia Antica on the Cardo
On Saturday we toured Ostia Antica the old port of Rome only 35 minutes by train from our home, never been there in 4 years but well worth seeing, in the evening we went to the Disco Volante on Via Alessandria with Brigitte and Collette. Today, Sunday it was lunch at the Antica Taverna Kosher del Ghetto at the Portico d'Ottavia, with all the wonderful Roman-Jewish specialties developed over 3000 years in Rome, no smoke meat or bagels here. We then walk across the old Fabricio Bridge to Trastevere for ice cream, the weather has been sunny and so Spring like in the last few days and now with the time change suddenly the days are longer. I have been spoiled by my friends with wonderful gifts.
I am also reflective, I am at a junction and unsure about the future, I suppose we can never be sure of the future, the uncertainty, the anxiety, has to do more with returning to Canada and getting re-acquainted with life in North America. Maybe I imagine it to be more difficult than it will really be. Walking today in Trastevere, looking at the Tiber river, I took a long look at it all, we visited the Church of Santa Cecilia built by Cardinal Aquaviva and Santa Maria in Trastevere. You need good walking shoes for the uneven cobbled streets, there is so much to look at, to appreciate. In the last few months this is what I want to do.
It sounds all exciting, all you see and do. I am enjoying 'following along' in your travels.
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