The Italy Series: A Night Walk through Rome

Trevi Fountain

or...a post that could be called "Mostly the Trevi Fountain"

Because that thing is really quite the loveliest, most gigantic thing to come across on a night stroll through an ancient city.  

We had just finished our first "real" Italian dinner of pasta and artichoke hearts.  We had just wandered through a maze of back streets lined with gelatto shops and men shoving roses into Paul's face: "BUY FLOWER FOR LADY!"  

And then, you hear this rushing water.  And then you turn a corner into a tiny, crowded, hidden, little square. And there it is!  The Trevi Fountain.

Throwing a coin over my shoulder into the fountain
--promising I'll come back to Rome
(and look weird in a picture)

The Spanish Steps with groups
of teenage hooligans

We also ended up walking to the Spanish Steps, but soon realized that one should always start with the Spanish Steps because when we got here we sort of were like...mehhhhh, wanna go back to the fountain?

So, we did
And, of course, got our "couple picture" for the record