May 22, 2016

It’s Sunday and after mass we decided to do one of the walks from our guide book.  This one is a bit outside Rome, the Appia Antica and is in a straight line, so we thought we would take it easy on a Sunday.  It took 2 bus rides to get there.  Probably about 45 minutes.  We are never in a hurry.  It was a little confusing when we got there as far our as orientation.  In other words, we only sorta knew where we were on the Appia.  As the name implies it is an area of ruins, but we were not impressed.  Compared to all the stuff in central Rome this was disappointing.  It was a hot day too, so we gave up after an hour or so.  We attempted to take some selfies with our newly acquired selfie stick and even though they are embarrassing we will post them.  We need lessons, Tamme and Jude.

Hopped on the bus back home and encountered the bus police on one of the legs.  I guess they check on the big tourist days.  Now, Ray lost his monthly pass and we did buy another weekly, but did not validate it.  People get off and on the bus without ever validating tickets, but when we saw the cops we hopped of the bus.  The fine is steep.  We didn’t want to validate for a few more days.  I don’t think we are cheating.  We did buy a monthly and a weekly, so they have a lot of our money.

 

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