This is the view from the staircase leading to the courtyard of our apartment.
This is the courtyard before walking out to the street.
We took the train out to the suburbs to Ostia to check out some real estate.
Ostia has is a little rundown but still has charm and has a lovely statue to greet you. What else can you expect from a town built between the 7th and 4th centuries?
There are many beautiful mosaics adorning the walkways around town.
This house looked lovely but would need a new roof.
I liked the tall walls on this one.
Leah liked this abode.
It has a great theatre that is normally bustling all day. The town still holds a lot of gender bias with the men sitting near the front and with women sitting on the higher stands.
There are some lovely townspeople.
The shops around town are great for those like me who are still trying to grasp the language. For all your shipping needs, check out the shop with a mosaic of a ship.
When I need some ivory or an elephant for a few hours to parade around for my party I can check out the shop with this entrance.
There are also plenty of slaves around to grind flour so my bread isn’t gritty.
Some slaves are happier than others.
There is also a thriving tavern Morgan really enjoyed.
The shelving was lovely.
There was also some creative storage utilized in the tavern.
This place even had a basement.
There were high rise apartments up to ten stories but now they have been reduced to two story abodes.
There is a big temple in the middle of the city for worship to the gods.
Unfortunately, none of the houses had toilets but they had these lovely public latrines available with running water.
The streets were quaint cobblestone lanes though the chariot and cart traffic at night is very loud.
This lovey castle was just a two minute walk from the city.
About ten minutes down the road I could still keep myself updated with the same publication I read in Vancouver, though I would have to adjust reading to the paper version.
In the end we just couldn’t choose between so many houses.
Also, Leah couldn’t wrap her mind around a culture were men were valued more than women and children with no reasonable explaination.