Rome Part 2

I just got home last night from another 7-day trip to Rome. I carry my camera with me all the time there because you never know what you might see! Here's a few things you won't find in the tourbooks.

This "dog parking" was outside a store on Via Veneto, right up the hill from our hotel. I've walked by this many many times and never noticed it. Just park the pooch and come on in!


Down the hill on the same street is this Lamborghini dealership. I only look in the window here because I'm certain they would laugh if I went in...

I took this picture because I noticed a disturbing trend of men wearing capri pants. Unless the style looks like extra long cargo shorts (this guy's didn't), they look like ladies pants and I don't like it. Just too gay for me.(Not that there's anything wrong with that...)As a bonus, this couple had just come from Trevi fountain, and the woman got her ass little wet. Duh!

When we fly to Rome, we leave the States in the evening and arrive in Rome the next morning. I take a short nap, then go walking (or touring) until it's time to meet for dinner. I needed a little caffeine so I went to this coffee shop near the Pantheon, which is awesome!

After a little coffee, I headed toward Piazza Navona, and saw this "city" horse at work. This picture is for Heidi -- I was thinking of her lucky horses that get to stand on grass and eat it too...

After passing through Piazza Navona, I reach La Botticella, the bar where all the crews meet to go to dinner. This is Giovanni, the owner, an Italian who grew up in Toronto. I have met crews from US Air, Continental and Air Canada here as well as the 3 or 4 other crews from my airline that fly to Rome each day.

I wanted to show you some pictures of Roman transportation. In this picture I want to point out that the scooter on the right is taller and almost as big as the car. (Or maybe the car is as SMALL as the scooter?)

This is a Smart car. They are wicked small.
These are BMW's. The black one is cool but I would just get a Smart car rather than the red covered scooter.

Look at what the cops drive! A Land Rover Defender. I would love to have one of these...

It should be noted that they also drive some little Fiats that aren't near as cool. (I think the younger cops had them)

This cop has a nice BMW...

Here's another picture for Heidi. I took this while we were taxiing out to the runway (in the foreground) They had a pretty good haying operation going here at the airport! (No barn is sight however.)

In other news: Our retarded (we say "retahded") dog kept sneaking into our partially-finished mudroom to lay on the insulation today.

Also, the motorcycles did not breed while I was out of town this time. They did however, get a killer sound system fed through our network from the music-only computer in the basement.