Rome Day 2: Where to Eat

We had asked the citylightsman where there was a good place to eat and he said that on the other side of the Colosseum, after the tour ended there, that there were lots of restaurants, but on a little street one block from the Colosseum, Lucy’s had the best lasagna in town and was a good price.
      When we were done with the tour then, we walked across the street and started looking for the restaurant and decided that we would never be able to find it. There were lots of “little streets with lots of restaurants.
  We walked around for a couple of blocks and then saw it!  Suddenly!  Success!  (But we would never have figured on that spelling, silly us.)
    Everything is a la carte (which we found is usual, unless you will order their 4 course meals!)
   We sat next to a young man from Israel who had lived in Rome for 9 years, and although he was working on his medical degree, he chose to be a tour guide.  He said, Yes, you need to see the Vatican, but he considers it an institution of “Greed.”  Everything has to be the very best, he said, from all over the world.
   BTW, he spoke great English! It seems the young people in Italy (and France, we found out later) are not taking English in school any more….as so few spoke it.