Desiderio di Roma Bed and Breakfast
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All Roads Lead to Roma
... by the Pope of the day to paint the ceiling as the man had never painted anything before this; he was a renowned sculptor. Also, he devoted four or five years to it, left to do other things and returned 22 years later to do the Last Judgement which took another four years to complete.
In between of course there was the statue of David, the dome of St. Peter's, you know, nothing too fancy!!
Amazing. While in Rome we visited ...
Last day in Rome
Just going to have a quiet one today on this our last day in Rome.
Will sit and have a slow lunch and 500 mls of wine and people watch, gelati for afternoon tea then a slow dinner and some more wine to end the day !! bit hard I know !
A couple of observations to note.....
All the men and women are very well groomed.
There is an obvious lack of children everywhere.
Dogs are welcome ...
Rome wasn't seen in a day...
... Pan) gods (theos) there before Constantine.
The dome doesn't look like much from the outside but it's truly amazing inside! Imagine taking a 142 ft wide ball and sticking it in a perfectly cube box -- that's the pantheon inside. It feels as if the straight walls leading up to the dome are curved themselves. It's a neat sensation. And then in the centre of the flattish dome is a 30ft wide hole -- the occulis, letting in sunshine (or rain which drains ...
When in Rome...
... to take a bus tour we saved 20 euro by taking the Keith walking tour. We saw the Pantheon the first day, as well as the capitol building and the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps and some important building where the carabineri were headquartered and there were men with machine guns, as well as the Piazza Novella , the Tiber River, a market, and other important places. We went everywhere. We then came home for lunch where we made sandwiches and headed out via subway ...
One week off.. Italy anyone?
... A young aussie couple- Elle and Loch- from Melbourne travelling around Europe after exchange programs. We ended up chatting with them most of the night and after discovering that we had planned on renting scooters the next day to explore the countryside, they offered for us to join them in their little car sightseeing around neighbouring towns.. they were obviously more concerned with our safety than we were! And that's why kids, you'r Aunt Belinda still has full use of ...