The Lord's Day

We spent our first Sunday in Rome visiting churches. Very appropriate don't you think?

The first church was for Mass, the local parish church Chiesa di Santa Galla. The wife was little self-conscious as the only Asian in a sea of Italians. After eating a light lunch in the neighbourhood, we boarded the Metro and headed north to Termini.

From this central hub of the Roman transportation system we walked to Santa Maria Maggiore, another one of the great Basilicas of Rome. We also wandered around this area and visted several more churches, including Santa Prassede.

Then we worked our way back towards the Colosseum, first climbing up to San Pietro in Vincoli, where we admired the chains of Saint Peter and Michelangelo's Moses. Then we walked by the Colosseum on our way to San Clemente, so old that it was ten or more feet below the street level.

We return "home" via the Metro, eat at our favourite Italian Restaurant (Il Ristorante Cinese) and go to bed. Tomorrow is our laundry day (we found a coin-operated laundry "today"near Termini). But it will be a memorable day, nonetheless.