Today we set off so a walk referred to the ‘Heart of Rome’. Off we went from our place of Campo de Fore back to the Pantheon and went back inside it again. We then made outer way through the historic streets to the Trevi Fountain closed for reconstruction, so I wasn’t able to thrown my coin in, to insure that I would be able to go back one day. Now with all the water out of the fountain I am sure that they were able to pay for the renovations with all the coins that were there. Since when we walked by all the coins had been taken out. Nether less the statues were impressive! We continued our way walking past streets with very high end clothing stores. We passed by what made my ideal of stereotypical; and it was fantastic! Three business people in what looks like their lunch break just left Valentino with huge bags in hand. I don’t know why but this to me just felt so Italian….We made our way to the Spanish steps. Looking up at them they looked like quite a feat, but once we started waling up them we were up at the top in no time at all! Now I thought that once I was up at the top I would have a spectacular view if the stairs, but you could barely see then form up above. We concluded the heart of Rome walk by going down one of the major shopping street and I finally found a much needed pair of shoes since I have been walking so much I have literally been wearing through the rubber and seems of my shoes! Crisis averted though :)
Heading back to our place to the safe haven of air conditioning some of us had a little siesta time while I organized my things and went out to the terrace and soaked up some sunshine. Afterwards we went of to the Victory Plaza into the immigration museum. I found it super interesting that the interesting that the information overlapped with what I had learned at the Hamburg museum of immigration. Also I found it hard to believe that Italian is apparently the second most common language to learn aside from English. Bridget and I then went for a walk essentially everywhere! We started off at passing the ruin and the Roman Forum, the Coliseum, and going though a ghetto, hopefully the Jewish one. To end we walked along the Tiber River and ventured back to our place to meet up with the rest of the crew. After a lot of walking today I was very excited to go get into bed and rest up for a big day ahead of me.