Starting to feel like myself

Spend the morning writing and then walked all over the area around the Teatro Macello in what is the oldest part of Rome, the section of the Tiber near the island.


To get there walked into Trastevere down the steep steps in front of the Academy. They go by a lovely fountain by Pope Sixtus and past the Academy Arcad from which Galileo trudged up the hill to the Academy grounds to demonstrate his telescope.

Walked around the Palantine hill to the Forum and then back to the Tiber. some pictures along the way.

Even found the first example of the kind of deterioration I was looking for on Trajan's Column base.