{"id":107,"date":"2013-08-13T04:52:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T09:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2013-08-13T04:57:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T09:57:15","slug":"canicus-in-italia-day-3-10-july-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Canicus in Italia: Day 3 (10 July 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on July 10, 2011<\/a> by Canicus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Today didn\u2019t go as planned. I woke early before the hotel breakfast room was opened, so I spent some time selecting some pictures from Friday to post. I\u2019ll try to get them out to the website when I post this.<\/p>\n

After breakfast it was off to Termini with the idea of spending the day at Vatican City. But I was running low on cash so I visited the ATM machines, but I could not get them to produce any cash. So I went back to the hotel (fortunately it is quite close) to get the \u00a350 I had stashed away. I figure I won\u2019t need that in London on my return trip. So I took it to the money changers to get Euros. Then to the Metro. I followed the signs for Metro B to Battastini which led me down and up stairs and finally to the exit. Now it is getting toward lunch time. So lunch. Termini station has a jillion food places, but they are virtually all takeout. I went into one, got a Panini and water. It looked like they had some tables and chairs. But on closer inspection they are \u201creserved for waiter service.\u201d The Panini was very dry; the water was wet, though.<\/p>\n

Eventually I\u2019ll go to the grocery store in Termini for some supper in my hotel room I had said I would check out the ruins in front of Termini this afternoon, which I did. The statue of John Paul II is indeed ghastly. Hardly worthy of the man or the city of such fine statuary (even if a good bit of it was stolen from the Greeks).I did manage to get into Santa Maria degli Angeli<\/i> even though I had changed into shorts. The Baths of Diocletian are now a museum, or at least the parts that were not taken over by Our Lady. I did go part way into the grounds. But formal admission is for four museums good for three days. Since it is closed tomorrow, I figure it would be best to come back later when I am a year older. If the U.S. would join the European Union, I could get a reduced senior fair.<\/p>\n

Rome seems to be booming economically. There are crowds everywhere. The Metro is jammed. There are venders crowding the streets. What you do not see are abandoned, closed store fronts. I need to get to the ticket desk at Termini to get a ticket to Ostia and reservations to Naples, Venice and Salerno. But whenever I go to that area there are huge lines. Apparently eventually I\u2019ll just have to go stand in line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on July 10, 2011 by Canicus Today didn\u2019t go as planned. I woke early before the hotel breakfast room was opened, so I spent some time selecting some pictures from Friday to post. I\u2019ll try to get them out to the website when I post this. After breakfast it was off to Termini … Continue reading Canicus in Italia: Day 3 (10 July 2011)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}