The mistake of Assisi and all roads lead to Rome.

So we take our time getting moving in the am. We checked the email on the rooms and luckily the place in Rome and the place we were at both had space so we decided to head in to Rome. We had a bunch of time to kill during the day because our guy couldn't pick us up until 4 from the Hertz place.


We could either drive to Assisi or some other town that sounded like booby. Though for obvious reasons, we wanted to go to the booby town, we didn't, we ended up at Assisi instead.


What a friggin' mistake. Not a bad mistake though. Assisi is beautiful and though slightly out of our way i am glad we went, i just wished we knew it was so pretty so we could have spent more time there. You can see it up on the mountain as you are headed in. It gets larger as you get closer (obviously) and it really is just beautiful. Also pretty medieval, many of the buildings are sandstone and lighter in color. That's pretty much all I can tell you about it because we spent like 10 minutes there. If only we had known we could have left much earlier.
















Drove in to Rome thanks to my fucking awesome backseat navigation. Got to Hertz, had to pee really bad. Crazy Romanian guy starts talking to Mauro, our guy in Rome. He tells me, "just say something to him in English so he knows you can't talk to him. He's eastern European, like Romanian or something, very dangerous people." So I should talk to him and not you who can speak a language with him? No thanks, and I have to take a leak. Jess is clearing everything up with the Hertz people and I see Glenn walk up an alley. He's gotta pee too. Only no luck because he's right back by me. I've had enough of the heat, crazy Romanians and the lot of busses right in front of me. Ah, big busses parked next to each other, very closely together and no one is on them...I hope you can see where this is going.


We drove to apartment from 1500s. It's very cool. Like really very cool, except for the shitty ac which is like a cross dehumidifier and ac and the two bedrooms really being one, like a giant bunk bed. Just because the owner, who apparently makes stained glass, found some cool old doors and closed in the bottom of the bunk area does not make a two bedroom apartment. The area of Rome we are in is pretty cool. We are right near Piazza del Fiore. We walked around to Piazza Novanna,












walked, picked up our Roma passes, went back, went and got food at buffet for buying drinks, walked around in rain, stumbled upon an antimafia demonstration at the Pantheon,










walked,


Went to the Trevi Fountain,






they got food,


Saw Castel Sant Angello,














Went to the Vatican,
















and walked.


The other shitty thing about the apartment is that the electricity goes out if you have on the two shitty acs, the tv and the washing machine. Fucking 1500s.




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