Steps to San Luca

After a night of insomnia, I was ready to call off our planned expedition up the famous portico that leads to the church of San Luca. We started out anyway, and gradually both of us began to feel stronger. It took an hour to walk from our apartment near the University to the beginning of the portico, and then took about an hour and a half to arrive at the church. Many younger people passed us, as clearly the steps are used for exercise by the fitness crowd. The climb upward seemed endless, and coming down seemed like nothing at all. The church and the views from the top of the hill are well worth seeing. I will post another gallery of our pictures above this. Though tired, and with sore feet and legs, we felt good by the time we got home and made a late lunch.

We are trying to watch a lot of Italian TV here (they say 'tee-voo'), and in the evening we came upon an RAI channel showing Riccardo Muti coaching young singers and conductors doing opera arias. That was fun for us, because Muti is fun to watch, and a mix of Italian and English was spoken, full of musical terms that we knew.

​One more benefit of our strenuous walk: we slept quite well.