Saturday nutshell

Brunch at Nino's

Nino's
Via 4 Novembre 97,
Ciampino

Cycling around Parco Appia Antica, exploring.....

Bicycle hire: 3euros an hour (you need to leave a drivers license or ID)

Took a glance at 'Le catacombe di San Callisto'....the christian catacombes which hold upto half a million graves.....

San Callisto Catacombe
Via Appia Antica, 110/126
8 euros entry with guided tour

Followed by a drive through the city and pizza.......then partaking in Romes 'Night of the musuems' where all the museums on 6th October were free by night! 

So we visited the MAXXI museum designed by Zaha Hadid which is similar to 

the Tate Modern in London.

Maxxi
Via Guido Reni, 4 A
Roma

Entry is normally 11 euro

The building is way more impressive than the Tate, but we found the exhibitions lacking somewhat (in our humble opinion). So yeh...we basically walked through deciding modern art was questionable but both appreciating the design of the building.

around 11pm we hot footed it over to Testaccio to check out the Macro museum which was holding it's annual photography festival. This was truly amazing. So many interesting exhibitions and live rock jazz in the background.

Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4,

Testaccio

Entry normally 6 euro

Housed in a 19th century slaughter house, this place was buzzing and not unexpectedly as every entry was free!

Testaccio reminds me of East London in so many ways, taking an area that was used for old agricultural use and making it the hip and trendy area to be. Or maybe it's just the people as they looked so 'east london'.

 A curved side street (via di monte) is home to bars and clubs galore. If you're there check out 'Musak' on the strip...a killer little club, where i literally danced for hours last week. But nothing kicks off until after midnight so grab a late dinner first.

Perfect saturday in Rome complete!