The Colosseum at Night

Picking up from my last blog post, after getting to our destination restaurant and finding it closed, we decided to go a different route by Ancient Rome and find a place to eat there.  Walking in a city like Rome that has such history is full of interesting surprises.  Like the building whose ground floor was way down below sidewalk level.  Looking down we could see a big party of some kind.  We later learned that the lower the buildings were, the older it was likely to be.  Most of Rome has been built up over the centuries making it seem flatter than it actually is/was.  We ended up eating at a place near the colosseum.  It was a cute little place with decent tho not spectacular food. I had a nice glass of red wine to go with my overpriced Lasagna.  

     After dinner we headed over to the Colosseum which was all lit up and quite spectacular.  We continued past the forum with all the ruins and then past other impressive buildings.  At the end of our long walk, we capped it off with some of Rome's best gelato, home-made in a little shop near our apartment.  Yum-yum!