While everyone else was sleeping, I got up way too early and went into Barberini where they have one of those easy internet places I always see profiled in business 2.0 magazine. The founder also owns Easy Jet, Easy car, and some other pretty large businesses in Europe. His father is a multi millionare yachting fanatic.

the red circle indicate where I am. They had a section where people with laptops & ethernet connections can get on their network for 5 euro an hour. I realized I didn't have the proper drivers installed for my network card, so I had to look up another, more accesible internet cafe in order to download the drivers, burn them to CD and then install them. I found TreviNet Place on the internet, took a photo of the map...

and found the spot (it was right near here). The connection was more expensive, but they had the ability to download files so I could get up and running back at easy internet. "Lima" means "file" in italian. "download" means "download".

I don't know the italian word for geek.

We live at the Cipro stop. There's signs in english telling it's passengers to be aware of pickpockets. Announcements are made in both Italian and English. I went back to the house to meet up with everyone else, we had plans to eat at a small restaurant near the Colloseum.

We use the subway all the time. "proxima fermete" means "next stop".

The Coloseo is almost more amazing at night.

I waited for ever trying to capture a shot with lots of speeding cars, but the traffic just wasn't flowing that night.

The simplest pasta dish in Italy is amazing. We had buffalo cheese (mozzarella made from buffalo milk) and pasta w/sausage & tomato sauce. We headed back to the internet cafe in Barberini after dinner, this is the fountain in Piazza Barberini.

We're trying to buy plane tickets to Paris for new years, Rent a car and drive from Paris to Milano, a 466 mile drive south on the Autoroute Du Soleil and over the Swiss Alps. From there, train to Vienza (Venice) and back down to Rome. We'll see what happens.