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Walking Rome's ancient wonders
Today I awoke again just before my alarm as to due go off at 8am. I had had a good solid 8 1/2 hours sleep, waking only a couple of times in the night, and felt very refreshed. I had managed to get the temperature in the room just right in the night, by leaving the aircon on low (naughty I know) and for some reason it didn't make the noise it did the previous night: I had mentioned the noise to the owner Livio at breakfast the previous day and he had got someone in to look at it, ...
Are you not entertained???
... the many things I learned in one night... Today I woke up bright and early at 6.... While having breakfast and an espresso I ran into a Coug from Wenatchee....that was a solid start to a solid day. The previous night I met someone dumb enough to go see the Colesseum and Trevi Fountain with me....It also helped that they speak six thousand languages. So today we mobbed around Rome for about five hours getting our Russell Crow on and ...
In the beginning- Creation of Adam, & the Vatican
... we were not sure if we'd covered them all. We saw massive marble baths, hundreds of individual sculptures of everyday things such as goats, donkeys, dogs, horses, etc. And they were all incredibly detailed and so delicately sculpted. It was also very sad to see all the plundered artworks.... so many heads of statues that were simply broken off from the rest of the artwork in order to be transported here from its original location. And then there were ...
Give me your bags and leave for now....
... acknowledging it or commenting on it. I finally figured it out when I saw them trying to get the button unstuck about 2 dozen rows ahead of me. ****** part #2 is that we got hardly any sleep. This might have been one of the most uncomfortable sleeping situations ever. The plane was like 95% full so no room to move somewhere else and the seats were a little close together. So yeah, about an hour and a half of sleep, MAYBE. Now, we were flying ...
Romes Birthday
... such ruin and chaos.
Heaps of history to talk about…another time maybe.
Made our way home passed the ‘Mouth of Truth’…photo op!!! and walked along the Tiber through to Campo di Fiori where we had a drink before going back to apartment.
We rested …got changed …and left for a little walk through our neighbourhood feeling proud of our achievements for the day and looking for a ...
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