Still Wednesday...

I had great plans to visit Santa Maria Maggiore but on the way I called into Il Convento dei Cappuccini museum and crypt. Unfortunately, the church wasn't open. Well, the crypt is downright - mmm cannot think of a word - bizarre maybe. I have a couple of postcards of the skull and skeleton art of some monks from a few centuries ago. I can only say someone was bored and had a lot of time on their hands. Creepy really and musty and dusty in the crypt too. Next I headed up the wrong street to Santa Maria Maggiore and ended up on one of those open hop-on hop-off buses, except mine was a round trip with no on or off. Well, presumably I could have got off but then would not have been able to reboard later. Nevertheless, I managed some photos of places I am not visiting. Most of the time though it was impossible as the bus didn't stop, didn't actually get close to the site or something was in the way.

Santa Maria Maggiore

Of course, the Coliseum.

The Vittoriano - aka wedding cake

A rather gloomy look at St Peter's Square

And so ended my trip, as the next few stops didn't pass anything and I have already done them ad nauseam.

I needed some more face wipes to clean off my makeup and eye makeup so I popped into the little erboristeria and asked her for fazzoletti and mimed cleaning my face. She had sold out and sent me up the street but not before I found out what to call them. So if you are ever in Italy and this is what you need then you ask for fazzoletti struccanti. The young girl at the beauty shop also talked me into buying a hand cream, a small tube, which was on special and gave me a couple of perfume samples. So I am back at the hotel to rest and charge my batteries as well as the camera and then the iPad. I gave the perfume samples to the lovely Serena who works at reception and is so very nice and helpful.

I have plans for tomorrow, so I trust you to keep me on track. Back to Knights of Malta, visit Santa Maria Maggiore and go to some of the little streets in the Termini, via Nazionale area. I seem to have wandered for miles but I haven't even got close to some places. Rome is just the hugest city ever!

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