4-6 A park, a walk, a championship

 

University of Connecticut women’s basketball program wins 2025 National championship!

 

About 25 years ago, while Sue Bird was still in college and Diana Taurasi was a Freshman, I happened to watch a University of  Connecticut Huskies women’s college basketball game and I had never seen a team at any level pass the ball they way they did, not until the golden State Warriors’ championship runs. It was a beautiful, magnificent dance. It was the way the game was supposed to be played, and I have been a U Conn fan since then. That’s my story.

 For those of you that do not follow College basketball, 64 teams enter the tournament, divided into 4 regions. U Conn was seeded 2^nd in region 4. They ended up beating the number One seed of their region, USC, by 14 points. They saved their best for last, defeating the number One seed of region 1, UCLA, by 29 points in the semi-final game, and then the number 1 seed of region 2, South Carolina, by 23 points in the championship game.

 Back to Rome.

Sunday street market: it went on and on for 3/4 of a mile

An island in the Tiber River

 

Litter on the island

 

Moses (definitely not horns)

 

My goal on this day was to explore the park at the north end of Rome. On Google maps there is basically an upside down U in green. I decided, after enjoying the first part of this green space, which actually was a park and gardens and sculptures, to walk the entire park. It turned out that much of it was not a park (I don't know why it was colored green on the map), and it was very big. It ended up being a very long walking day.

Vlla Borghese gardens

 

 

 Goethe Monument in the park

 

When I returned to Rome proper and started heading home, I ended up walking path a number of monuments. 

Fontana dell'Aqua Felice

 

 

 

Palazzo dell Esposizioni

 

And then, turning the corner, I had this view.