6:00 pm, Christmas Eve:
looking for a place to eat
in Campo dei Fiori

Dana in the center of
Campo dei Fiori, where no good restaurants are open tonight.

So we end up eating at this
NOT good restaurant instead.
(Look for my restaurant review.)

Dana enjoys gelato.

We waited at the bus stop
with this dude in a kilt.

The Porta Pia is mere
meters from our hotel.

Bars block access to the metro,
and most buses are not running.
Welcome to Christmas in Rome!

The Hotel Turner
from across the street.

Dana's about to enter the
lobby and get warm.

The ground floor is deserted tonight.

Feels a little pretentious,
but I do dig all the marble.

the drink dispensers for
breakfast in the mornings

8:24 pm

the breakfast room

looking southwest from the
hotel, toward Porta Pia

large building at the southwest
end of Via Nomentana

approaching the British embassy

The embassy is on
Via XX Settembre.

the rear entrance of the
embassy, heavily guarded

The Christmas tree at
Termini station is loaded
with letters to Santa.

Dana scores a cafe latte and a pastry on the train ride to Venice.

heading north through Italy, 11:11 am