On Thursday we played tourist: we walked to the Bocca Della Verita, Colosseum, Roman Forum, the church of Cosmo and Damian (which was closed when we were here ten years ago), the Trevi fountain, did some shopping and got me back to the Airbnb in time to start my workday.

Lunch near the Trevi fountain — pastas for everyone.

Dinner in the Jewish ghetto — an area I hasn’t been to previously and the restaurant was right next to the ruins. The area is known specifically for fried artichokes. Unfortunately dinner wasn’t as good as all of our other meals; D has been ranking his spaghetti carbonara dishes (he’s had three so far) and tonight’s was in third place. Miss M ranked her third red sauce dish tonight in third place as well. My mozzarella didn’t exude milk as it should, the fried zucchini flower was terrible and only Paul liked the fried artichoke. Oh well — at least two more weeks of meals to go!

Miss M wanted to see the Colosseum during sunset and the Trevi fountain at night, so after dinner we walked off the calories and made our way back to these monuments. The Trevi was so crowded and dirty, packed with tourists. Totally expected, but it had to be done. Checked it off the list and tomorrow is another day.