A Casa Di Rita Rome

... sf in the Vatican. The value of the Sistine Chapel? Money has no meaning. The last pope started a modern art gallery in 1973, in order to display a collection that was largely donated by artists over the past 2 centuries just to claim that they had paintings in the Vatican – Van Gogh, DeChirico, Feininger, Kandinsky, Bottero, Severini – 30 rooms of art, an afterthought in Vatican terms, but a world renowned billion ...

... and warm for me lol.. im SOOO proud of you, looks like u got things going and working hard over there. i love you and GOOD JOB mister!!! I cant wait to see the open mic, ill try to catch tidbits of it when i can but yeaaa try my best, so frickin a! they sent me ANOTHER phone from piccell and that one is broken too! im like omg! but ima go to florence tmr and then go to the office and get a new one to make SURE it works.. they are also gonna give me 25 euros of phone ...

... very apparent reason which has to do with its gigantic size. The second and lesser known but more commonly believed derives from the "colossal" statue of Nero that stood outside the theatre of which only the base planted with five trees remains to this day.

When you first walk up to this amazing building, it's hard to believe that it has been there for almost 2000 years and difficult not to be struck with awe ...

... but they got the earlier, cheaper tickets. Oh well. We then had to wait for like a half an hour before the bus came. When we went down to wait for the bus, we had to wait for longer too because it was late. The bus ride took a little longer than expected, plus I was getting really carsick. We tried to watch a couple of episodes of the Office. They were pretty funny. That show is really growing on me. Luckily we stopped at a ...

Rome, of course, lived up to all of its stereotypes and exceeded all of my expectations. It is a modern city in an ancient setting whose citizens are slightly off-beat, but yet it seems to work for them, and you, as long as you can keep pace (hence that ¨When in Rome...¨ thing). There to accompany me and prevent me from wandering aimlessly into Roman traffic was my college friend, Chris, who flew in from London for the express purpose of ...

... thing was to grab a coffee not on the main streets but up a side street had it at a table but cheaper if you stand at the bar Very hot very busy and lots of people advised to watch your bags and wallets but up till now all pretty cool lots of graffiti & quite dirty arrived at Colosseum after having a quick lunch very ...

... 10 of his friends. Saturday, November 4, 2006 On Saturday, Jack and I spent the day in the Vatican Museum. Sunday, November 5, 2006 On Sunday evening Giorgio took us out in the evening to meet several more of his friends. We went to a wine bar in town. Monday, November 6, 2006 Jack left Giorgio's apartment around 5 am to return to Boston and I left in the afternoon to continue on to Zurich, Switzerland.

... When the top is finally reached there are a number of doors and staircases that branch off from the main courtyard, rooms filled with exscuiste art and artifacts, one room containing some of the most amazing, rich marble and gold floor, wall and roof designs I've ever seen, there is another branching courtyard, lined with actual catapults and the stones which were once shot from them, breathtaking. These are only mere portions of ...

... that..we also wandered around the Forum but none of those famous Romans, Cicero, Caesar, etc were hanging about but my hangover sure was. We had to check out the "Mouth of Truth.." I lied to it and kept my hand, but this could be more to do with the fact that i lied and then took my arm out at the speed of lightening (pausing only to beat down crowds of school kids to take a photo..)

... and Piazza Navona. Nov 4 We started the day at the Sistine Chapel. We did this in anticipation of the lines getting longer as the day progressed. We climbed St. Peters at noon for a great view. At the end of the day we ended up watching some weird celebrity on the Spanish Steps. We never did figure out who she was, if anybody.