Rome

A lovely mild day in Rome, I walked beside the Tiber which is a pretty jade green not the muddy brown of January. I saw a man catch a large fish before I dived into a church then a museum and then the endless laneways of little shops to get Johnny's birthday present. There are more tourists here than I usual, it is a positive town of babel but always fun, well mostly. I am really enjoying the freedom of doing exactly what I want after the inevitable restrictions of being in a tour. One of the others from the group is still here and we meet for dinner but go our own way in the day, best of both worlds.
I have very specific things I want to see but if they are shut, on tour, swathed in scaffolding or just plain disappeared its not a tragedy. There are always other things to see. Today it was Caravaggio, one of his sullen, sexy, touselled and very tactile John the Baptist representations. Not terribly religious but very appealing. Unfortunately no photographs in the museum