First Night Out

Our first night out in Italy was a little more challenging than we expected. We visited the Coliseum. At night it was beautifully lit, and more enormous than you can imagine. In addition, we stumbled upon some other beautiful places like the Vittore Emanuel monument. Even so, navigating the city without knowing what we were doing on public transportation or speaking Italian turned out to be a little difficult. We had a lot of trouble finding a taxi, which we now know is because you have to go to taxi stands and you can’t hail one. Good to know. Once we did get a cab, we had quite an experience. He was playing some sort of dramatic classical music that sounded like it belonged in a horror movie, and then raced around the curves up the mountain. It took all the gumption we had to not burst out in laughter. Plus, we think the guy was smirking as we slid from one end of the cab to the other. Quite an experience for our first night in Roma! Lesson learned: cabs are scary!