Ostia Antica

top to bottom: "Can you spot the bug?" and "Mia in front of the Forum at Ostia"

Last Tuesday, we visited Ostia Antica as a class. This ancient port town is a little further away from Rome's busy city center, just a few stops out on the train from Ostiense (past the E.U.R.--Fascist suburbs are weird). There are some gorgeous ruins (lots of them) to see here, and having spent the previous weekend sandwiched between tour groups at another popular site for ruins--Pompeii--it was nice to meander through the wide open and virtually empty streets of Ostia Antica at my own pace. It is prohibited to pick the wildflowers growing in and about the town, or to climb on the ruins, so I had to exercise some restraint and settle for photos.