A New Language and a New Place to Live?

I’ll try to catch up on the other intervening days in later posts. But yesterday—Monday, April 4—we did two important things. First, we visited the Dante Alighieri (DA) Society headquarters in Rome and signed up for one-hour Italian lessons for each of the remaining weekdays we are here.  We are currently taking bi-weekly lessons with DA in Seattle and feel so lucky to have a chapter there.

Outside DA Roma (so sunny!)

Steps to DA library

        

We notice Dante a lot now!

Brad with Raphael's Dante (in red with laurel) at Vatican

Second, we met with a property manager who showed us a little two-bedroom apartment just off the Campo de’Fiori, which is the center point of the historic center of Rome.

We have loved visiting the Campo! It is where Lily studied when she was in Rome during college at the University of Washington. It's not a fancy square but has lots of atmosphere with a daily flower and food market, dozens of surrounding cafes and shops, and an intriguing statue in the center of a Catholic philosopher, Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake for heresy here in 1600.

We had a lovely lunch next to the fountain in the sunshine even with Bruno looking down on us.

Will this be where we live come September?

View from Via dei Cappellari 65