Thankfully, today was a really light day after the past two intense days of sightseeing. We started off the morning at the cafe and had our cappucino and croissant. Then we headed out to the Villa Borghese, which is really just a large park with several temples and museums. This morning was pretty cool, so it was nice to walk around a park, but really, after a while, it wasn't that exciting. :)
We headed up to the Galleria Borghese to see the museum, but they required reservations, so we pretty much headed back out after that. We walked through the Via Veneto neighborhood briefly, but walked with the purpose of getting to the Spanish Steps. It was pretty cool once we got there. There was a church at the top of the steps, and the steps themselves were broken into several sections. There were people everywhere just lounging about. There were also azaleas everywhere, with a big section of them in the middle of the steps.
Going down the stairs led to the piazza, which lead to the shopping. Teo and I walked down one of the main streets and went into Prada, Gucci, Max Mara, Furla, and a whole bunch of smaller (more affordable) stores on the Via de Corso. I bought a really cute vest at Stefanel. Then, we found a small pizzeria and had lunch.
After a quick nap (when in Rome...), we headed over to Campo de Fiori. This consists of a large piazza with tons of restaurants, florists, and other stores around it. There was also a large column (looked like a smaller Washington Monument) in the middle. We saw lots of street performers, including a little kid with a crazy loud voice that played the violin, a weird mime, and some dude on the guitar that liked to play Sting.
We went into a bunch of stores in the Campo de Fiori area, and once we finished with that, we went to a restaurant in the piazza. We had the buffalo mozzarella, some great white house wine, and I finally got to have some veal saltimbocca. It was really good. Oh, and I tried some olives, and actually liked them. We'll see if that happens again.
That was pretty much it; it was nice to have such a quiet day. Surprisingly, as many stores as we went into, I only bought the vest and Teo didn't buy anything. That's alright, though, we do plenty of shopping at home!
