Rome (Parte Due)

The Jewish Ghetto was actually quite a buit more Jewish than I thought it would be. The food was good and apparently Jewish...but as it was open on Friday night, had a nice spread of shellfish, and had a proscutto appetizer, I question the authenticity of the Kosherness. There qwere however a few places within a block that had "Kosher" signs in the window. There was also a "Kosher Bar" whatever that may be...
I'not going to lie to you, sheep's brain is a whole bunch tastier than it shoudl have any right to be. I have seen it on the menu at at least 3 restaurants, and as Matt has explained that Roman food is mostly about interesting cuts (I think he may have gone with guts), I feel as I had no choice to eat it. It was combined with lightly fried artichokes and mushrooms and green beans.
Now comes the fun part.
After leaving Matt's with a hug, a coffee, and a panini, we head over to the catacombs. Our guide is this fricking awesome Aussie priest who is full of funny sayings, lots of info and some good advice regarding (a) not seeing the other catacombs, (b) not eating at the restaurants on the edge due to price, and (c) to check out the cool pagan mauseleum about a kilometer away.
It turns out that there are no lockers at the catacombs or the metro stop that we took to get over there. So it is now a 5 km hike with bags, but hey, I packed the stuff, so it's on me.So we finish up, grab an overpriced early dinner at the train station from basically an Itialian Panera bread.
We hop on the train bound for Sienna, pass out, and wake up...in Rome.
Apparently the Austrian and Itialian companies who are running this train have overbooked it and so we sit in the station while they sort it out.
for a while
like for 2 fricking hours
Unfortunately that means that we have missed any possible connection to Sienna from florence and so we frantically call our gracious host of the previous few nights, Matt, and see where he is.
Matt is out in the burbs at a dinner, but we are able to get a hold of his roommate, who will wait to let us in her apartment. SO more booze, a freindly Itialian roommate of my college friend and some good pizza, and I am finally unwound.
Mental note: best way to unwind is to have a pizza with salmon arugula and caviar on it. I'm sure that this will totally catch on in the US, and its all I'm eating from now on.