Gnocchi Thursday in Rome

Hi!
Our last full day in Rome we went to the Forum in the morning even though it was already rainy and didn’t look like it was going to stop any time soon. We decided to take the bus there so we’d have more energy later on in the day, though we had to get off before our stop since I wasn’t feeling too well. We walked around the Forum, and I have to be completely honest, we were very disappointed. We had seen Archaeological Digs in Buenos Aires, Barcelona and Israel and this one paled in comparison to the others. We had one small map, without any descriptions of any areas, we had no idea what we were looking at. I think it was pretty unfortunate since they have so many finds and history at the Forum, but without any help to the tourists to show us what anything is, to us. it’s like it was never discovered. I really didn’t learn much of anything about History, Archeology or even Rome at the Forum so we quickly moved on and walked towards the Circus Maximus which wasn’t much of anything either. It was simply one large field nest to the Forum. The Circus Maximus was where they used to have horse races a long, long time ago. Afterwards, we headed towards the Trastevere Area so we could eat at the well-known and loved (mostly by the locals) Augusto’s for Gnocchi Thursday! When we arrived there was already a line outside, and it was completely packed inside. One man actually just walked in grabbed a plate of gnocchi and ate outside in the cold, I guess they’d do anything for amazing pasta. When we did get to eat, and the wait wasn’t too long, the gnocchi was amazing! It was definitely the most amazing pasta I had ever had, my mom’s not even much of a fan of gnocchi and she even liked it! Being in Montreal now without all the amazing pasta and food is definitely tough. I’m even getting hungry for gnocchi just writing about it. Anyways, then we walked through the Trastevere are a bit more and went further down the main street. We also decided to walk through some alleyways though we always seemed to end up at the same place no matter how many ways we would zig-zag through the tiny streets. Funny how that works! We decided to walk back to our bed and breakfast since we were already getting tired (four days of walking from one end of Rome to the other really tires you out!) And we went to Dino and Tony’s for the third time on our last night since we loved it so much! I wish they opened up a Dino and Tony’s in Montreal! I would be eating there every week! In all, we loved Rome! It’s such an amazing city and it was definitely shocking seeing beautiful and clean Rome after coming from noisy and dirty Mumbai. I would definitely go back and wouldn’t even mind living there, despite the language barrier. Hopefully I’ll be writing about London soon so you can hear about all our experiences there! Until next time!

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