CATCHING UP WITH FANNIE AND ANDREW

I'm way behind!

After Fannie's and Andrew's visit, Thomas visited for a few days, then Gasper. It has been very nice having so many around and will seem quiet after tomorrow when Gasper has to fly back to Heathrow and hopefully on home to Philadelphia. (I say hopefully because of the mess at Heathrow's new terminal.)

So, to catch up, I think I'll just include some photos from the remainder of the kids' visit and hope I can work out the layout issues with Blogspot enough to at least identify them.

F&A took the camera and went to the colosseum on their own, so these are shots they took themselves:














The next day we all went to the Galleria Borghese, a must-see if you are here for more than a couple of days. Once at the Villa Borghese, we had some time to kill before our alloted hours in the museo during which time Andrew rescued Fannie and BIll from the Tourist Eating Tree:











Happy to be free, Bill found a friend to play with:Sadly, no photography is allowed in the museum. I would love a chance to take some closeups of the Bernini sculptures!

After the museum and, of course a coffee, we wandered across the gardens where we found a "tribute" to Goethe:











Bill is a big fan of Sophia Loren!



Coming back into the city down the Spanish Steps (so-called because in the 1600's the Spanish ambassador to the Pope used to have his offices on the piazza) we stopped at Antico Caffe Greco for more coffeefor Andrew, hot chocolate for Fannie, and, even better for us, Prosecco:









At the end of the day, a bit of shopping brought home some beautiful crawfish(?) with false eyes on their tails. We never really figured out how to cook them, but Andrew, being a good New Englander, definitely knew how to eat them!