Origuy
I had 3½ days in Rome before I left for Vieste. It was my first time in Italy and I had a few things I had to see. The Pantheon on Monday, the Vatican on Tuesday, the Colosseum and Forum on Wednesday, and the Villa Borghese on Thursday. I could do at least one OTR submission on each, but I thought I’d start with some of the other things I did.
I arrived in Rome in the morning, took a bus to the Termini Station, and walked to my hotel. The Hotel Medici is named for the famous family who once owned it. I couldn’t check in yet, so I dropped off my luggage and went to explore the neighborhood.
I was in the Sallustiano district, named after the gardens created by Gaius Sallustius Crispus, a senator and historian of the 1st Century BC. Nothing is left of the gardens except this small piazza, the Horta Sallustiani, which is a private carpark that I was chased out of.