finally, a real post.
Ok, so this internet access thing is settled.
So many things to report -- gastronomic adventures, adjusting to a rhythm of life that includes a nap, an obligatory hour of sitting in the piazza people-watching before dinner, and pretending whole-wheat croissants are a healthy breakfast (who knew such a thing existed!?).
I've been getting really antsy to be out all over the place, Mom has been enforcing a realistic schedule of not exhausting myself. We've had a little tension lately in the afternoons, particularly when it comes to navigating Trastevere. It is so easy to get lost; for every street there's a perpendicular alley with the same name: a Via della Scala and a Vicolo della Scala, etc. My famous intolerance for, well, other people has been pronounced.
Yesterday was the Festa della Repubblica, the big national holiday with fireworks and parades and shops closed... we avoided most of the hooplah but saw a procession of militari on horseback that we both enjoyed. It was the ponies we liked, not the procession. We tried out Roman Jewish specialties near the Portico d'Ottavia, fried artichokes and lambs' brains. Very tasty though difficult to talk myself into. I had a hard time looking at what I was eating, though the texture is lovely.
After a long walk around Trastevere and the ghetto in the morning, then more of Trastevere in the afternoon, we sat down to a hilarious dinner near our apartment. The Hostaria Botticella had the most amazing menu posted outside, but dinner was a little disappointing. Mom had wonderful homemade gnocchi with saffron and zucchini blossoms, and my pasta with favas and speck was good, but not the knockout I was hoping for. We did have a great time watching the neighbors setting up dinner on the front stoop, a friendly yellow cat chased around by our restaurateur and fussed over by passers-by, a Smartcar coming inches from running over a German fellow diner's toes, and a series of itinerant musicians playing the Godfather theme and Sinatra tunes....
off to the library today. more later.
So many things to report -- gastronomic adventures, adjusting to a rhythm of life that includes a nap, an obligatory hour of sitting in the piazza people-watching before dinner, and pretending whole-wheat croissants are a healthy breakfast (who knew such a thing existed!?).
I've been getting really antsy to be out all over the place, Mom has been enforcing a realistic schedule of not exhausting myself. We've had a little tension lately in the afternoons, particularly when it comes to navigating Trastevere. It is so easy to get lost; for every street there's a perpendicular alley with the same name: a Via della Scala and a Vicolo della Scala, etc. My famous intolerance for, well, other people has been pronounced.
Yesterday was the Festa della Repubblica, the big national holiday with fireworks and parades and shops closed... we avoided most of the hooplah but saw a procession of militari on horseback that we both enjoyed. It was the ponies we liked, not the procession. We tried out Roman Jewish specialties near the Portico d'Ottavia, fried artichokes and lambs' brains. Very tasty though difficult to talk myself into. I had a hard time looking at what I was eating, though the texture is lovely.
After a long walk around Trastevere and the ghetto in the morning, then more of Trastevere in the afternoon, we sat down to a hilarious dinner near our apartment. The Hostaria Botticella had the most amazing menu posted outside, but dinner was a little disappointing. Mom had wonderful homemade gnocchi with saffron and zucchini blossoms, and my pasta with favas and speck was good, but not the knockout I was hoping for. We did have a great time watching the neighbors setting up dinner on the front stoop, a friendly yellow cat chased around by our restaurateur and fussed over by passers-by, a Smartcar coming inches from running over a German fellow diner's toes, and a series of itinerant musicians playing the Godfather theme and Sinatra tunes....
off to the library today. more later.
posted by Miss Adventure at 5:43 PM
4 Comments:
lamb's brains were "lovely"?
too much sun, i say.
smartass. going to need a trip to Il Buco soon though, to have a beach day and get some sun, people keep telling me I'm too pale.
i could use a healthy dose of il buco. my neighbors have had too much to look at on my roof these days...
then again, i've spent way too much time at the gate.
which explains this comment...
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