Greetings all
The big plan for yesterday was simply to get to Rome and hotel, the Palazzo Dama. Which we did!
It was, in general, a smooth trip. Taxi to the train station. Wait for train. Get on train. Find ride from train station to hotel. Collapse for nap. Some hurry up and wait. Some going at 248 km/hour. The usual.
OK, I think I did good on choosing the hotel. Now, I freely admit I splurged and it’s way out of our price range, but I dealt with that by using all the credit card advantages at hand. We’re paying less than the price of one full night while staying here for four. Use your points, kids.
Or rather, use your credit cards up to the point where you can pay them off in full, then let your points accrue. And if they offer bonuses and you can take advantage of them without doing anything you wouldn’t otherwise, do it! We got $750 paid for this hotel plus some other bennies just for doing that. And that’s the tip of the iceberg really.
Anyhoodle, you don’t need to hear me brag. However, I’m going to do more. This place is amazing. The Palazzo Dama was built in the 1700s. The original family still owns the property. It’s very upscale, to the point where I’m looking around like that meme of John Travolta in Pulp Fiction. You mean I get what?
It’s a good place to conclude our time in Italy.
But we still have a few days left and we had a great time after we napped. I led us out earlier than I should, though, forcing us to stop for spritzes a couple of times. Oh, the horror!
The problem was that we had a reservation at a particular place for 9:30pm. Yes, 9:30pm. It’s a really neat place that Mark Stallings found. Yep, travel 6000 miles and I still have to put up with Mark! Life is terrible!
We had a great time. He and his wife are celebrating their anniversary and have spent the last month in Italy. It was a happy coincidence they were in Rome at the same time and we could meet for dinner. It was delightful, including some of the best food we’ve had so far.
But before we could do all that, the wife and I had to make it to 9:30. We’ve been going to bed relatively early. Our hotel was only about a mile and a half from the restaurant, so we roamed. I tried to find a fabric store, but failed. I did find a bookstore but we didn’t buy anything. We’ve bought a bunch of stuff already.
We had spritzes and coffees and nibblies. We went through grocery stores. We went through touristy stores. We dawdled. We took a few “why not” turns. We moseyed. We even sauntered!
And still we ended up waiting outside the restaurant for 20 minutes.
Totally worth it. It was great to hear what they had done on their trip plus to hear all the stuff Mark’s been doing writing wise.
We should march on Rome more often!