We had no television in our lovely little apartment until our landlord brought a new cable (the old one having been broken). Being without television wasn’t a great loss since we don’t speak much Italian and there are no shows in English. However, as we sat at a little bar at lunchtime, we learned from the television that Italy is in the middle of an extraordinary heat wave.
Ah ha. That’s why I’ve been so hot. I had been told that Rome’s temperature is generally around 30 degrees C (90 degrees F) in the summer. So I had been figuring that the temperature has been somewhere around 85 or 90, with exceptionally high humidity. In fact, the temperature has apparently been 100 or more, with that same high humidity. No wonder we seem to need to take two or three showers a day.
We had a very quiet day, just going into town for a short while in the morning to shop and to revisit the church of San Croce in Gerusalemme, which contains relics of the Passion which Constantine’s mother brought back from Jerusalem. All afternoon we read and took it easy.
We did take time to make our arrangements to come home. We will be returning home early in August, via Chicago where we will spend a few days with Bill’s mom. Knowing a date certain for coming home gives this reluctant traveler a bit more peace of mind.
We had a quiet two-hour dinner at the restaurant across the street from our apartment, where we now seem to be treated as regulars, having eaten there a number of times (pictured here). With our television fixed, we watched the Germany/Turkey soccer game until bedtime.
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