Borghese

The huge gardens and the Gallery are too wonderful! We went through room after room of the most beautiful statuary and paintings and decorated walls,ceilings and floors! I was trying to imagine living there, but couldn't do it. Even MY imagination has limits. Ray and I wandered through the grounds after and saw ripe oranges growing on trees, and lemons as well. Irises in bloom, and always the obligatory fountains and columns.These Romans sure love their fountains! There's a zoo there, but we didn't go in. I'm not a zoo person and neither is Ray, so when we saw it was 10 Euro to get in, that decided it for us. We did stop for a lovely capaccino(or is it cappacino?) outside under some glorious trees and listened to the peacocks. We came home for lunch and to change. After a rainy day yesterday, the sun came out and it's in the 20s I think.Sorry Heather, who is in snowy Calgary, for even mentioning again how NICE IT IS HERE!!! So, we'll change, and Ray and I are going to tour a castle, the Jewish Ghetto, and who knows what. There's that church with the lion face outside it that you stick your hand in and if you're a liar it bites it off. So maybe tomorrow we'll be waving with only one hand. It's all part of the tourist experience. Also part of my tourist experience this morning at our local coffee place I was sternly ordered out of mt chair by an older Italian man who was NOT IMPRESSED that I was sitting there! In HIS CHAIR,if you can imagine! Laurie saw him glaring at us, and then I saw him sitting in another chair. Too funny. We musy be disrupting his little routine, poor old thing. Well off we go to more gloriousness than we can bear yet again.Ciao!