8 LEMUR THE EIGHTH VATICAN CITY (FAUSTA JESUS, 9 years old)
We fared very cheaply.
Our budget was almost unaffected.
And it was...
It was...
Wonderful.
Boris and Marta are in Rome for the first time.
A low-cost company. An affordable double room at a hostel at Piazza Dante. Second youth and first freedom. A small, smaller and smaller world. This is what brought these tough forty-year-olds to the city of captivating architecture, history woven into everyday life, to this confluence of culture, beauty and human openness.
It’s spring. The last week of the month. Boris and Marta, holding a tourist brochure and a camera, wait for the red A underground line at Vittorio Emanuele station.
It’s very crowded, as if the whole world swarmed to the same place they were headed for today.
They
