Ostia Antica and the beach.

Today the group took a short trip to Ostia Antica, an Ancient Roman settlement that is more complete and less excavated than what we've looked at thus far. To get there we first took a bus to the train station, and then took the train to Ostia Antica. The trip there only cost 1E because on one ticket you can take an unlimited number of buses, and one train, in the 75 minutes during which you ticket is valid.



Looking down on the ancient bath complex.

















Beautiful mosaic on the floor of the baths.




























The ancient toilets.


















Ancient piping in the baths used to pump hot water behind the marble walls.


















Beach!













We went to a pay beach (3E), but you could rent umbrellas, beach chairs, beach houses, etc...a foreign concept for sure.










I definitely applied sunscreen twice and still got really burnt on my forearms and the back of my hands :(

Gelato Update
Lemon - Very flavorful, but not good enough to top strawberry. Quite refreshing, though!
Stratiacella (again) - still excellent as before. This time, I think there were small bits of cone, or something in addition to the chocolate chips.

By the time we got off the bus at our stop in Rome, dark clouds were on the horizon. Soon after I got home the thunder started, followed by rain.

Dinner
So I guess it's safe to say that there is a good and a bad to everything.

The bad: water and contents from our kitchen sink/washing machine is backing up into the bathroom in my room. Luckily, we have one bathroom that we're able to use most of the time, but we can't really put water down the sink or use the dishwasher.

The good: we got to eat out today! We went to a restaurant near our apartment. I had bruschetta, ravioli (spinach and cheese in a butter sauce) and tiramisu with wine.