Jewish Ghetto Rome

....PILLARS!!!!..............pillars to you too mate.

Another day of cramming in sightseeing....this time extremely hungover (sound familiar Jason?).

I think we only survived today on large volumes of coffee and a constant food intake to stave of the empty hollow feeling we had in our stomachs, blood and depths of our souls..... …

Today the three of us, David, Channing, and myself, took a stroll through the Jewish Ghetto. We actually took the Metro to the Colosseo stop and walked down the street to the Military Museum. The streets were all closed on Sunday and everyone was just walking down the middle of the street taking pictures and having a wonderful time. It was so …

Ive always dreamed about traveling to Italy. The plane ride from Seattle to Frankfurt to Rome was long but not as bad as I thought it would be. First thing I notice about Rome was how insane drivers are around here! There are no lanes yet some how they make chaos look easy. We checked into the hotel and encountered my first bidet.I could not wrap …

Not lost - just confused.

We decided to walk to the catacombs and I downloaded a set of directions from Google. They seemed OK but trying to find street names was difficult. We left about 10:30 and got there about 1:20 after asking directions many times and having people tell us to take a taxi because it was too far. Even the police seemed …

Hola amigos! Jasmine here! So today you're going to get a massive post dump because we (1) fell behind and (2) when we

caught up to posts there was no internets. Alas. (You know how it is. When we have free internet, we're too damn busy to

post. When we have downtime to post, internet becomes scarce. Such is life.) Anyway, …

Today we found ourselves in the Jewish Ghetto, where we had a wonderful lunch - roasted Artichokes, spaghetti (of course) and coffee (of course again).  We found amercing ourselves in another culture, ordering lunch without any English ...

... just after we set off... so we were stuck with that too.... it just wasn't our day! We arrived at the Synagoge in the Jewish Ghetto of Rome. It's not really a Ghetto, but that's what they refer to it as. We were hoping to visit the Jewish Museum, to get ...

Today the three of us, David, Channing, and myself, took a stroll through the Jewish Ghetto. We actually took the Metro to the Colosseo stop and walked down the street to the Military Museum. The streets were all closed on Sunday and everyone was just ...

... the Pantheon. So we walked... and walked... and walked a little bit more. The walk was well worth it, we went from the Jewish ghetto, past the Cat Sanctuary (which is converted Roman Ruins) and arrived at the Pantheon. This was well worth the walk to ...

... any ethnic descent. In the beginning of Rome, Jews were well thought of and held many high standing government positions. however, the Jewish ghetto was created in 1555 by Pope John the 4th to forcibly move all Roman Jews to a separate place because of ...

... another day with lots of walking -- from our hostel, we walked to the Bocca della Verità, then Trastevere, then the old Jewish ghetto. (Incidentally, at the Piazza Bocca della Verità, two different people asked us for directions. I gave pretty accurate ...

... straight to bed. Yesterday we had to get up early for reservations at Villa Borghese. We are heading out now with Channing's new Aussie friend to the Jewish Ghetto!!! I will relax and write a more formal blog later this evening! Stay tuned!  Love ...

... and just did some homework and hung around for the night. Yesterday 5.24 we had our Italian arch course and went to the Jewish ghetto for a few hours. Some of the roommates were thrilled for their kosher food. I stuck to my Tomato and Mozzarella! ...

... find out what is so interesting about this) Tuesday started out at Castel St. Angelo then walked to Circus Maximus, Mouth of Truth, Jewish Ghetto, Theatre of Marcellus, this is not in order... Got to go it is getting dark and we are on the other ...

... ;               We spent some time in quieter places though - the Jewish ghetto on the east bank of the Tiber, the colorful Trastevere just across the river from it, secluded corners of Pincio gardens, ...