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When in Rome...
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We got through a fair chunk of the museum before antiquity overload set in. But Al made sure to continue his binge on Greek painted vases.
We then wandered around St Peter's. It's big. Really, really big. But it's also all grey stone and is a bit souless.
By ...
My, my, baby blue, Yeah I'm so jaded
... church. There was musical instruments on display, from violins to lutes, in all different sizes and ages, some going back as far at the 1500's. Interesting enough was the interior, but as we sat eat lunch, an authentic italian pizza, I studied the clock on the outside. It was a twenty four hour analog clock, which was interesting enough on its own but what really confused me on first glance was that the entire face was rotated clockwise by around 85º. This meant the ...
Roam in Rome
... By the shores of the Tibern, all sorts of bars and restaurants had put up tents for the evening crowd. Local beer was had, and on the way back, after a short detour to photograph Collosseum by night, we stumbled upon that which defines a proper town: The Irish bar around the corner. Slaìnte!
Roman Holiday
... Cartona, Centoia, Camucia and surrounding towns from kilometers around will come in on Thursday for market day. Many will drive in to town, and this creates the kind of parking mayhem that is normally associated with Warringah Mall or Chatswood in the week before Christmas. We didn't realize that leaving 45 minutes to park the car would not be sufficient.
But as the old saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining, and in this case also a Euro lining for ...
Flexible Midgets
... in a footnote it says that it is where Julius Caesar was killed! Then you stand where Augustus had his villa looking out over the Circus Maximus and envision the glory that was Rome. Then you see the spot where St Peter was crucified upside-down (upon his request because he was not worthy in his eyes of being crucified as Jesus was). Our first day we walked to a cathedral at the top of the Spanish steps and they had a group of women in white capes singing this ethereal ...