Asiandelight B&B Rome

... terrazzo. The Palazzos of the wealthy are astounding constructions, many of them now housing the museums noted above, some converted to public use like the American Embassy in Palazzo Margherita and the French Embassy in Palazzo Farnese. The Barberini Palace is a masterwork of the Renaissance by Bernini and Borromini who were pitted against each other to construct the most elaborate of the papal residences. 400 years later, the ...

... 8217;s. This time we wanted to get down to the crypt where John Paul II and others are buried. We made it upstairs after running through the crypt and headed for lunch at about 2:30. We finished lunch at 4 and now we’re resting before heading out for a glass of wine and appetizers.

Tomorrow is Becky and Mando’s last day so we’re going to make it the best. The photos attached are self explanatory.

Ciao,

... Josselyn had not yet been. It took a whole lot less time to find our way to the luggage storage area, but there was an extraordinarily long line. I guess it is officially peak season in Europe.

Immediately after storing everything, we hopped on the metro and went straight to Vatican City. There was no line at all, and it was not a holiday! So, we got to enter the Vatican Museum where we meandered through the Early Christian Art section ...

... weird. The hand railing were plastic arms and stuff. It must have been done up good for halloween because it felt more like a dragons lair than a bar. Creepy. By this time, almost everybody was going home, so we decided to too. We took a cab and got to the hostel, raining as per usual. The next day was much the same as the previous morning. We both took showers packed our bags, and said goodbye to the reception that we had known for 4 days, our ...

... in his fanclub today and was happy to be done with the lecture. After getting the most delicious gelato (strawberry and some other purple flavor that I didn't know the name of but I think was black cherry) in the world with the Trastevere girls (I refer to groups of girls according to where they live) I went to the Sede (school) and did some bookkeeping. Then back to the apartment all salty from the day ...

... so we drowned our sorrows in Gelato! Then did some major souvenier shopping! Not a whole lot else that day, we just came back to the hostel bought some weird assortment of food from teh market had dinner, had a crazy laughing fit, mostly cuz we were overtired, and then headed to bed! Early morning this morning! We checked out of the hostel, we were moving to the Village Roma hostel to meet up with wes and cassie! So after switching hostels, and ...

Rome Tuesday September 26th 2006 Lyn and I were up fairly early. We took showers/got dressed and stashed our bags in the kitchen. We headed off to see how much of Rome we could squeeze into one day. This is the 5th time in 5 years we have been to Rome. So this time was just to see things we missed and revisit some of our favorites. 1) St. Peters to climb the cupola. We went to the station and hopped on ...

... falling over each other in the darkness. Our tour guide was a real larrican. A German, with an Irish accent and an English girlfriend. Go figure - cosmopolitan Europe I guess. In the evening, the remnants of the tour group went out for dinner in an Italian alfresco restaurant. Then, on a whim, over to St Peter's where I got some great photos. Then what else to do in Rome at night? Drink good Vino. Back to the hotel at about 2.00am. Another great day.

Well hellooooooooooooooooooo (to be said in the voice of Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire)! I hope everyone is doing well! I am eager to see all of you, although I do love reading all the emails! :) We left Florence yesterday. A little part of me will be there forever. It was...amazing. I got to see the statue of David...the only three words that accurately describe it are "oh," "my" and "God." That man...well, lets just say I ...

... we woke to more rain and caught the tourist-packed bus across the bridge and into Venice. I'd been to Venice before but it's always an incredible place to visit. It's even more surreal with streams of people masquerading around in elaborate and aristocratic costume. I'm still not sure about gondolas though. Call me hard-hearted but I am yet to see the romance in paying hyper-inflated price for a boat ride in a polluted waterway lined with tourists staring and ...