.....IRENE'S SUMMER HOUSE AT THE SEA, NEAR ANZIO - where she and her son spend the hot summers. It is beautiful inside, and HUGE - 2 stories, at least 4 bedrooms and several bathrooms. Not bad for a summer house, eh!!?? Unfortunately, they got robbed the past 15 years in a row, (YES, NO kidding!!) which is very common in Italy when houses are empty in the winter months. Most of their neighbors were robbed a lot too. So they soon learned to leave little there of value, but nevertheless, the robbers always found SOMETHING to steal!!

That's me you can barely see walking near the door, holding my head. I'd cracked it real hard on the bottom of the metal staircase on the second story balcony, during Irene's guided tour of the house. (That hurt a LOT and for over a week afterwards too! - Serves me right for not seeing it, I guess!)
I snapped the next photo quickly as an elderly woman walked with a big bundle on her head! Whatever works...I always say!
In downtown Anzio, we enjoyed a cool fountain, a rose garden and one of the pretty piazzas where people can eat outside "al fresco".