The beautiful rose window.
After spending some time admiring the basilica, I took a taxi back to via Santa Sabina to have another go at the keyhole view of St Peter's. Well, I almost wore my camera and myself out trying to find a setting that would pick up the view. People with good cameras were taking fabulous shots and I just could not get it. Finally, I got one that faintly shows the basilica in the background.
Get out your magnifying glasses.
Then I headed down hill to Santa Maria in Cosmedin again and got a photo of me with my hand in Bocca di Verità .
After this I followed the river until I saw the synagogue, then I walked through some back streets of the Ghetto. Onwards and upwards, I reached the Pantheon region absolutely exhausted. So I stopped for an aperol spritz before forcing myself homewards. So, I had walked from the Aventine area and when I finally got to the Piazza di Spagna and saw the sign for Babbington's tea house I stopped. It was lovely, clean, cool and quiet. I sat next to a charming English couple on a cruise and up in Rome for the day. But, a jug of iced tea and a chicken and salad muffin cost €29 nearly as much as my ill-fated meal at del Sole in Perugia. I know I have missed seeing a lot but I think I am done. Rome is exhausting - it is 28 today and very humid, not really the right temperature to be traipsing around.
I must say though I don't know what all the talk about traffic and crossing the road is about. Cars stop at crossings and traffic lights and even the widest street is okay to cross. Do not think I would like to drive though as that is truly awful, not really any lanes, you just make up your own.
So almost time to say farewell to Italy. I have to start thinking about the dreadful task of packing. I leave the hotel about noon tomorrow for my 3:25 flight to Dubai and then home to Perth.
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