Come take a walk with us as we try to find the stop for bus #71 heading to the Trevi Fountain. We are staying east of Rome's Termini train station in the San Lorenzo district, known as the student hangout. The graffiti, street art, stickers, and posters are mind-boggling. The size, the heights reached, the ancient remains and buildings defaced...and no one seems to blink an eye at it all. This is just considered one of Rome's art districts, the walls an ever-changing canvas.

Our first turn off the Via dei Marsi: these amazing ancient Aurelian walls. (Why were they built by citizens instead of legionnaires? Where were the latrines? For answers and more fascinating info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian_Walls ). We walked several blocks toward the station, as our host had advised, purchased a 48-hour bus ticket in a tobacco shop, and began looking for our bus stop. Four people asked, and a walk through a tunnel under the train tracks--and back!--later, we finally found the correct one.