a final night in Rome

Back in Rome for the Night.  When we pulled into the train station we had to go to the left side of Stazione Termini this time, where all the Afrians, beggars, and in general dirty people are chilling.  So it was weird walking by them with our luggage in tow, but we were walking fast and not easy targets at all.  It was a less than 200 m walk  to our hostel, so that was good.  But we had a crappy elevator to take us to our rooms, our rooms were hot, but if the window was open, it gets really loud.  But we had internet, so that was important.  From there, I was in a rush to get to the AS Roma store before it closed.  The easiest accessible one was in Piazza Colonna so we had to walk there all the way from Piazza Barberini which wasn't bad.  We got to look at the Trevi Fountain again, while it was blistering hot, and full of tourists.  But we made it to Piazza Colonna, where I finally got a good view of the Marcus Aurelius column, and also made it in time to the A.S. Roma store.

So I was stoked to stock up on some gear from my favorite football club, before I headed home to the states.  We walked up Via del Corso all the way to Piazza del Popolo, and enjoyed a nice snack of Burger King chicken nuggets and fries.  They charge for sauce there, and their manager wears like a really expensive Armani suit.  but whatever.  We got back to Termini to drop off our stuff (my big bag of Roma gear) and waited forever at the Bus Stand for the bus to Trastevere.  It took a long time for the bus to come, and there was a ton of people waiting for it to arrive.  We ate at a cheap place in Trastevere, but recommended from Davis's friend, and made the fatal mistake to eat inside. It was light raining outside, but nice, but inside was an inferno with a pesky fly hovering around.  But every thing on the menu was extremely cheap, so I got some Spaghetti Bolognese, Trippa alla Romana, water and some vino for about 15 euros. We were going to go to some craft beer place, but it was raining, there wasn't any street signs to indicate the street we wanted, so we ended up missing Open Baladin. Again, always an excuse to come back to this city I love.  So we ended up walking by Piazza Venezia again, and the gorgeous Vittorio Emanuel monument in the night, and ended up back at Scholars Pub.  This night was a little more lively with students, but with dumb American students who you could tell were too young for bars in the states.   We caught a cab back to Termini, and crashed at the hostel in the hot room