Nous avons trouvé du Wifi à l'aeroport de Rome en attendant notre vol vers Athen. Une semaine d'antiquité et d'art contemporain!
We found a Wifi connection at the Rome airport while waiting for our flight to Athens. A week of antiquity and contemporary art!

Update...

Tuesday May 9

We returned to the Centale Montemartini... a real treat for me with its huge machines and industrial past. 

After we took the subway to Barberini and did a walking tour of sculptures by Bernini and then the Plaza Republica area including a toilet stop at a McDo. We then walked the rest of the way home.

Wednesday May 10

To the local bookstore café to verify our flight for the next morning via Wifi, then the tramway to the Coloseum which we visited, very impressive considering that it is almost 2000 years old. 

We than wandered around the area that is the Forum and Paletine which are an incredible array of ruins on top of ruins with buildings built on top.

 That's Suzanne pretending that she is not there...

Where ever you go in this city there are ruins or buildings going back over 2000 years with all eras since then represented also. As mentioned earlier, I am most impressed by the Aurelian walls.  There is a long section between our apartment and the train station Termini, so we are just outside of the walled part of the city.

Tomorrow we are up early to catch the train to the airport at 6am and a flight at 8:45am to Athens.

Thursday May 11

Up at 5am after an almost sleepless night and off the airport via a train. At the airport we got stuck with extra baggage charges for my backpack that we expected but also for Suzannes legal size suitcase because it was overweight... sigh the down side of inexpensive tickets. At least Alitalia, which is close to bankrupcy, is still flying. 

The Athens airport has a train that feeds into the subway system so we got to our Airbnb apartment easily and only had to wait a few minutes for our host to arrive to let us in. Once inside we found that there was no electicity. So our host, Dimitri spent the afternoon trying to get that straightened out and we finally had light just as the sun was setting.

Our neighbourhood is very interesting... very working class... almost no touristy shops, but little stores selling the sorts of things that normal people need. It is amazing how many there are. Blocks will have up to 4 little grocery stores selling fruit and vegetables plus basic food stuffs, plus there are fruit and vegetable venders set up along the street selling from trucks, or just setup beside the sidewalk. We found a supermarket, small by our standards that has a better selection.