Italy! Day 7. The feet have stopped barking... For the moment

Our intention today was to wander a bit and sit more.  The ratio of late has been way more feet time and much less butt time.  But then, walking is great exercise... Especially since we are averaging 6-10 miles over the course of the day.  At least that is what my pedometer is telling us...

We set off this morning for the Spanish steps... This time to scale this famous stairway. It is 9 sets of 12 steps plus 3 at the base...111 steps. Piece of cake after Cinque Terra. The views were really cool. We could see much of the city from the top if this hill. Must be one of the 7 hills...  

Yup, you guessed it... The dome church is St. Peter's and the large building to the right is the Vatican. These Catholics do not doing anything small here.... They apparently need to worship a lot ... There are over 3000 churches just here in Rome, and they are huge!

Following the edge of the hill and cool view, led us to a humongous park. Very beautiful. Parakeets, homeless people, young lovers, bicycle rentals, boats, trees, cafés, and even a toilette. The challenge was to find the latter.... Too many coffee drinkers...  :)

We split up and my contingent set out to find BJ's DMC office and the Hard Rock Cafe. The plus is, the cafe has a nice toilette.  Bonus.  We all, via cab, met in the campo de fioro for food and beverage. 

Note the limoncello -- very Italian. 

We shopped and shot (with a camera) our way back to the hotel. Somewhat costly little walk... :). we now have some treasures to bring home.  

Tonight dinner on the other side of the river. It was really fun to walk along the river. There is a festival that runs for about half the year. 

Our paths brought us to walk by monumento to victor Emanuel about 3 times through the course of the day today.  That may be part of the reason our feet are talking to us and the pedometer was over 10 miles ... Happy happy!!

Tonight we pack for in the morning we catch the train to Florence !!  

Ciao