Our hotel had a great breakfast (large fresh croissants!!!! Yoghurt!! Great coffee!) but the only thing Ron could eat was the cheese and ham slices (processed) but we were expecting that. What we did not expect was that the group that was staying there (we had seen their bus) was composed of handicapped people who had come from all over Italy to receive the Pope’s blessing and they had been part of the crowd on Saturday at the Vatican. We talked to a man at our table (we accidentally sat at one of the group’s table, but it worked out fine, everyone was very friendly) who spoke a little English who said it had been a “magic moment” seeing the Pope. 
We had decided to take a city tour (since we still knew literally Nothing), one of the bus tours that take you around and drop you off here and there. We took the city bus (remember, by now we “know” the bus system … and you can buy a bus ticket at the tobacco shop!) to the end of that line, the Piazza Venezia. Little did we know that is a major tourist attraction and also near the Roman forum ruins that Joan was most interested to see.
We spent quite a bit of time looking at the Vittorio Emanuele II Monument and an attached church where a wedding was going on (on Sunday!) And then we noticed that the Roman Forum ruins were right nearby so we thought we’d just walk around them on our own since we were right there (no need for a “bus tour”.)
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