We are beginning to fit in: up until after 11:00 last night and up early today. The last two days have been clear skies and warm weather but today it is overcast and tomorrow, Easter, bodes well for rain. Breakfast on the roof was fabulous as usual, with eggs, sausage, bacon, five fresh juices, many different fruits, and every conceivable pastry you can imagine. We have been good, but not too much, saving ourselves mostly for the restaurants we have chosen. After a taxi ride into the gardens we walked the last few yards to the Galleria Borghese, the most incredible museum of statuary in Rome. Many Bernini statues (David, Apollo and Daphne, Rape of Prosperine, and Truth) as well as numerous others that overwhelm the senses. Canova’s statue of Pauline Bonaparte as Venus makes you
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