Day 2 Rome

It is so great to wake up whenever I like with no alarm. I admit, so far the Alter ego has taken over and I have only done essential yoga, legs up the wall.

The day was perfectly blue and very hot. I wore very little out shopping, my favorite piccolo (tiny) French lace top. It raised some eyebrows. 

Before I went out I managed to get stuck in the lift and when I got out I pulled the handle off my door. It was a slapstick moment that would only happen to me! Haha so funny. The boys I asked to help were from Poland or somewhere and didn't know a word of English. Wiwa came to my rescue.

I have bought out most of the shops in Rome by now. Make up, new bag (it's blue) and more shoes (soooooo comfortable) today. 

I had a chat to a sweet old couple from Ireland who asked me the way to the Trevi Fountain and walked along my favorite cool & leafy street eating a gelato. 

If only Singleton had left our trees along John street, we would have had a street like that in another hundred years or so. 

The best hotels are along this street & my hostel is around the corner, in the safest spot, between the huge American Embassy building and the FBI on the corner under my window. I have to be a bit careful when I'm deciding which outfit to wear, the plain clothed guards may be glancing up at my window.

Exhausted from shopping, my afternoon nap extended till after 8pm! I had to jump up and get ready to go for dinner. Wiwa had slept-in too, so that was ok.

One of her friends picked us up and we drove a way out of the center of the city. We were 4 girls and one Italian boy who didn't know English which was handy at times. I would say the night was kind of Wiwa's unofficial hens night. 

Tartaruga is the best word I learnt from my Italian app. It was the star word of the night. Tartaruga is turtle and another word for your tummy. Either way - if you are full your tummy is the top of the turtle shell but if you have six pac abs you have the underside of the tortoise shell. From now on there will be no more ab exercises - we will have exercises for tartaruga.

We had a delicious dinner, they had bistecca  (steak) but I had my favorite tonno  (tuna) pizza. Sarah loves pizza.

We also had wine. Life is different when I'm not the yoga teacher. Then we went to Brazil. 

Brazil is a bar set amongst the graffiti of Rome that serves extra potent cocktails and good music. Graffiti is the art form of the common people I see in all the places around the world.

It is different to have friends who live in the city. It is my fourth visit and I am no longer the tourist! And I know what Tartaruga is!

I'm off to Greece now. Caio.
Sarah :-)