Due per Uno

Darlings,
One of the many fabulous things about life in Italy is the 2 for 1 deal.  Every day is 2 for 1.  You get two days even though it's only one.  Perche?  Because every day is split in half.  You get the morning, then a break, then the afternoon.  This morning I enjoyed an early breakfast at Hotel Sonya.  Their signature 'egg cake' thing, a croissant, and a piece of breakfast cake.  Then I grabbed my Roma Pass (slowly it's making sense) and went to the metro to catch the B ttrain to the Colosseo.  You get there, leave the metro station, and there it is.  Huge.  Colossal.  Though the 'colossalness' of it actually refers to a huge statue of one of the emperors that used to be there.  Sorry, I can't remember which one. 
I skipped the Coliseum and headed to the Roman Forum.  So fabulous.  And so peaceful for about an hour.  I am totally inspired by the notion of Vestal Virgins.  So much so that I have decided  I am one.  Really.  These women were very powerful. Consecrated as symbols of divination and glory.  They were chosen at a young age and committed themselves  to live out their days (not all of them) as virgins.  IF, god forbid, one was caught in the fantastically muscular arms of some BASTARDLY fabulous gladiator, she was condemned.  She was given a loaf of bread and a lamp and then sealed away in a tomb.  I'm totally inspired to redo this notion in my back yard:

But of course the rest of the Forum is beyond belief in its beauty and scale.  You simply have to see it in person.  It is the rhetorical punch of architecture in one lesson:

After all of this fabulousness, there is only one thing to do.  Have lunch.  Ho fame.  So I make my way to Ristorante di Giglio.  My waiter was so marvelous.  He let me speak in broken Italian and never once defaulted to his broken English.  I spoke only in Italian!  And at the end, I told him 'Grazie per aver ascoltato il mio italiano malo' he said, 'no no.  E perfetto.'  Glory!

Lamb of God and potatoes, darlings.
And..... how do they get their torta limone so light and their caffe so heavy?  It's divine: