Day 8 - Mediterranean Cruise Rome - part 3

 Day 8 - Mediterranean Cruise Rome - part 3

From the Colosseum, we toyed with the idea of taking a taxi to Trevi fountain but the prices were exorbitant being so close to a huge tourist attraction, so we decided to walk.  On a map, it wasn't that far!

Oh in various places, a few guys loitering would say, "Hey!" to Ken and "I like your shoes!"  Did they all train under the same scammer guide book?!  He just kept walking.  And his shoes weren't THAT great...  LOL Just kidding Ken!  You have very nice shoes!  But their lines started becoming really obvious.

Like my lanyard?  I borrowed it from Leon for this trip!  Worked great.

And our journey went on, through tiny cobbled streets and past fascinating buildings.  

Once, we  met someone walking the opposite way saying that that way was closed off, you have to go back a block and around it.  At the time, we weren't sure they were telling the truth, but you have to trust someone and our feet were hurting.

Around every corner there was un farmacia but in this case, they switched it up with a City Pharm!

And we MADE it to the Trevi fountain!  

Wow were there a lot of people there!

If you want to get close to it for a picture, you have to give someone a couple euro but we didn't see anyone and you can always crop people out if you want!

It really is beautiful!

When I told my girls that we were going to visit Trevi fountain, they reminded me that Hilary Duff, aka Lizzie McGuire visited Trevi fountain in the Lizzie McGuire movie!  Oh yeah!!!  

So on the family slideshow version, I have the "Hey Now, This is what dreams are made of" song for the background.

We hadn't had lunch yet and being next to another tourist attraction, we decided to walk a few blocks and find a taxi elsewhere.  Along the way, we found a place to eat!!  Forget carbs!!  We're on VACATION!!  And we were TOTALLY walking it all off.

We also found a book store and I dashed in to find something totally in Italian for me to translate later!

I've gotten all of 5 pages into it and not sure if it's even something that I'll like.

Specchio D'Argento by Olivia Laing.  Published in Nov 2025.  So a totally new one!

Translates to The Silver Mirror and I THINK it's about the dark side of the hidden world of making movies in the 70s.  I might be purchasing a a different Italian book to translate instead but for now, I'm plugging away at it.

We found a taxi!!!

And as always, I'm snapping photos of bricks we'll never see again.

The taxi driver took us back to where the bus dropped us off.

And back at the bus station, we searched for a restroom.  FINALLY found one but thought it wasn't working.  You have to drop euro in to open the door to the general bathroom.  I think we finally waited until someone came out and then slipped in while the door was still open. :)  

Also got some snacks for the ride back to the ship.

And as we were pulling away from the stazione, I saw a pyramid!!!  So I took a quick shot.

Found out later, it was built in 18-23 BC and is a tomb for the magistrate Gaius Cestius.  It's one of Rome's best preserved ancient monuments!

Then the 1.5 hour drive back to the MSC Orchestra!

Where we ate in the buffet again and I got the little shrimps in Leon's honor, but they did NOT taste good.  Everything else was great!

End of day 8!  And while looking for some of the pictures for this one, came across several that should have been on the first several posts.  I'll go back and fix those later today, hopefully.