It is a glorious day. Philip, Michael and I go out after breakfast to find a supermarket. We use the iPad and find a small supermarket hidden in a passageway. It is perfect for little things: milk, cheese, snacks, red wine etc.
Returning to the apartment, we find the cleaning lady in the building who agrees to receive Hiroko's suitcase when it is delivered. That's great. That means we can get out and enjoy the wonderful weather. We head out on the Corso. A man on the corner of the Corso is taking a photo of our street so we decide to do the same, it's a really nice street. We go down to Piazza del Popolo. The Corso is still more or less free from motor traffic, like a pedestrian zone. Maybe it was always like this. The sky is deep blue and the air is crisp. From Piazza del Popolo a long flight of marble stairs leads us up to the outer edge of the Villa Borghese park and an amazing viewpoint. We can see the whole of Rome from the Palatine hills, Vittorio Emanulle monument to the dome of St. Peter's church and a hundred other church towers.
We decide to cross the whole park to reach the Zoo at the other (northeast) end of it. It is a long walk but Michael is very happy, running about and exploring everything. There are broad tarmac roads without any cars in the park and people are biking, skateboarding etc. It is a great place.
We find our way to the Zoo which has a beautiful entrance in classical style with pillars and lion sculptures. We spend hours going through the whole park. Michael is very excited to find all the animals indicated on the zoo-map we got with the tickets.
When we exit the park we all have heavy legs. We decide to try to find our way to the Spanish Steps. We succeed and stroll down the famous stairs in sunshine. Michael needs to pee and we head home to our apartment.
Upon entering our place we see that Hiroko's suitcase has arrived. Praise The Lord!
After a short break we go out and get some pizza at a nearby pizzeria.
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