Family on the road

After my coffee, I returned to my hostel to check in. I went out to the garden to have a smoke, out there I dropped in to a conversation three lovely girls and one excellent fellow from of all places Australia. I guess its true, everywhere you go, it isn't long before you run into an Aussie; or in this case four of them.

We chatted over a bottle of wine, drinking from mugs. Where we were going and where they had been. Everyone was very close to each other in this group, and feeling a little emotional that they were spitting up there family of travellers. They invited me out to join there fair well dinner that night. We found a nice family Italian restaurant over the other side of town. It was a magnificent spread of food, bread with figs, salamis, tomatoes, fish, and pasta with veal intestines stuff with liver (My choice).

The next day we met up for breakfast, went down to the fountain di Trevi. It is incredible, white marble sculptures, with a clear blue sky background, though also overwhelming amounts of tourists, and the inability to stand for thirty second without someone trying to sell you crap. Around the corner is the most amazing gelato, absolutely exquisite, I ended up going back there a few times, like my friends had done before me.
Kris and I parted with girls and headed to Vatican city. It has a awful beauty, such skill in the artists, and deep history, yet greed and decadence which cannot be ignored. Though you can find humor in the Michelangelo's work on the Sisteen Chapel where he depicts God seated on a human brain shaped cloud, Adams belly button and one of the church minister of the time as a gatekeeper to hell, and a refusal to cover the genitals of his figures, where a the church employed another artist to paint over them after his death.

The Fam (To Kris, Anna, Tegan & Rachael, I wish all the best in your further travels, and thank you for the fantastic time we spent together!)

No photos of the chapel ceiling, but here's one of the first automotive Pope-mobile