Roman Out-Takes, 2022

Tired though you may be, do not sit on this window sill

Not your usual all-black Italian get-up

As close to Art Nouveau as we got on this visit

Spell-check?  Or use Google Translate maybe

Definitely use Google Translate; or maybe it's an oats appetizer?

Maybe that's why she's having a cappuccino or an Americano?

Fashion coming to a mall near you

So you get a plenary indulgence just for visiting?

The elevators in our apartment building apparently
used to be coin-operated

"You have reached the confession hotline. We value your call,
which will be answered in the order received. Your confession
will be recorded for training and quality assurance purposes,
and of course we will never share you personal information
with anyone but God"

International scene: Asian guy wearing sombrero playing accordion
polka music on a bridge over the Tiber

Gelato truck

Ad majorem dei, Gloria

Only pop-up we saw in three weeks in Rome

Absentee pan-handling is now quite common...

Bell tower at St. Paul's Without the Walls...

Now renting out space to Verizon

A final memento for me...the stops on the Metro B line...I love
the way the strong female voice announces "Garbatello"

Miscellaneous Roman Sights And Scenes

A few sights and scenes that didn't quite fit the narrative...

Palazzo Massimo, home of the National Roman Museum

Opera

Street scene

Interesting architecture everywhere

At the ever-mobbed Trevi

Us, too

Beautiful old buildings

Interesting new ones too

Protesting violence against women

Jesus as a homeless person...

You never know what's under the plaster...

Beneath the New Esquiline Market...the old one?

Ruins of a nymphaeum (water distribution) in a park near us

Just a few blocks away from our apartment, ruins of another
nymphaeum, 4th century BCE, once thought to be a Temple of Minerva

Eating Roman

Much of our home cooking is Italian, so we felt right at home in Rome...plus there were three supermercados, the huge New Esquiline Market, numerous alimentaries and produce shops, and other things within a few blocks of our appartamento. Besides, when in Rome...

At the produce market just outside our building's door

Bulk wine store around the block; BYOB; sadly, I didn't get here much

Home cookin'--Vicki's veal picatta and pasta alfredo

Chef's board at a resto whose name I've forgotten, near Piazza
Reppublica

Roman pastries are attractive, but we mostly stuck with the
gelato; a really good gelato shop, San Lorenzo, was just a block
away

In an alley just beyond our bedroom window was Saltimbocca,
a restaurant we liked

In part because of its meter deal...a meter's worth

of Roman tapas, plus an aperativo, for 10€

Her pizza

My saltimbocca

Artichokes a specialty in Trastavere and the Jewish
Ghetto

At Dar Poeta

With the beyond decadent calzone filled with
ricotta and nutella

Italian broccoli

In the huge Nuova Esquilino Mercado, a few blocks away; the
entire central aisle (nave?) was seafood

Fried artichoke at Tonnarello's in Trastavere

My salmon

Her carbonara

Ultima cena in Rome, a selection of Italian sausages and pasta