Day 4: Sunlight floods every cranny.

Day 4, Nov. 6, 2010
(by Joanne) We feasted on a lovely breakfast, took a nap, and headed for a Van Gogh exhibit. It was, of course, fabulous with many sketches and paintings I've never seen. On the way, we saw acres of expensive real-estate, expensive 2000 years ago, now ruins. These ruins tell the story of an ancient culture that we inherited and is useful today. Rome, with its 3,000,000 people and 1,000,000 tourists is clean and gives the semblance of order, unlike our experience in Greece. Athens was truly a dirty city. (That is to say crowded and so heavily polluted that flags flying at our hotel were filthy.) But in Rome, the busses and cars dart in and out, co-habitating in the streets with bicycles and thousands of scooters. We have not heard one horn honk. People are very friendly. Perhaps the sunlight adds to our positive mood, but the sunlight floods every cranny.