Sketching, sunbathing, and cursed pizza.....

well not exactly, the sun passed over where i was sitting pretty quickly.... sketch is of the enormous basilica ruins in the Forum... in it's original form there would have been a vault as large as the the remaining ones arching cross-wise over the top... originally used as a court, would have been intimidating as hell.... and this is the same basilica type that survived for use as christian buildings, on the grounds that temples were too pagan... anyway, very fun to sketch in the sun and a little removed from the tourists swarming the Fora. Getting more happy with how my sketches are turning out too... wee

on the way to the Forum before this we had forgotten to look for food until past the cheaper food possibilities, so it was a bit of a wander until we found a lovely artisanal pizza maker, hole-in-the wall take-out, with the BEST pizza i've had. my first piece featured tomatoes that redined my conception of good tomatoes.... my second (mandatory after the goodness of the first) was zucchini flower, tomatoes, and unexpectedly acceptable sardines (i had thought it was tuna) i don't know if globs of cheese are going to be able to define good pizza for me anymore after these craftily balenced affairs....