Italy Flag Bob and Ann - BAC Tuscany on the Med 2013

  • September 23 – Rome

    Tonnarello At Da Enzo


    St Peter's

    Another very warm day of sight seeing in Rome. First, we took the bus to St Peter's Basilica. We decided to skip the Vatican Museum during this visit to Rome. The line to get into the basilica was very long, but it moved fairly fast. Because St Peter's can fit up to 60,000 people in it, the crowd that we were in did not feel oppressive. We spent about an hour inside.


    Our next bus trip was to Trastevere where we had lunch at Da Enzo Al 29. This is one of our stops on our food tour Saturday evening. Ann had a salad and the pasta shown above. It is home made noodles with pecorino cheese and black pepper. I had grilled eggplant and peppers along with pasta sugo di coda – large tube pasta with a tomato and oxtail sauce.


    Needing to start digesting our lunch, we walked around Trastevere. We found the bakery that we also visited Saturday evening and I bought some macaroons with hazelnut filling.


    We took the tram to the end of the line and transferred twice to buses that brought us back to the hotel to rest. The heat and the crowds seem to tire us and an afternoon rest felt good.


    For dinner, we had Roman style pizza at Pizzeria Da Baffetto which is near Piazza Navona. We had different styles of vegetarian pizza on very thin wood fired crust. This is my favorite kind of pizza.


    This is the end of our trip. We head home tomorrow morning.


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