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A trip to Rome and Florence
Saturday
The exams were done and we wanted to get away for a week before the new semester started. So where did we go...Rome and Florence :-)
The train from Milan to Rome was much nicer than expected and the journey only took 3 - 4 hrs. It was a quick train, ferrossia (?) train. It was nice.
When arriving in Rome, V. was …
Rome: overrated?
... villa that would give us the opportunity to rest and be self sufficient. The area around our villa is very local. In fact, in someways it feels more like a middle eastern or former Soviet country then Europe you immediately think of, such as Paris. It's dirty. Roads are not well maintained, footpaths stop and start suddenly, buildings crumbling and air conditioning is considered a luxury. On first appearances Rome, gives the impression of a city that is still ...
Walk, walk and walk some more...
... di Santa Maria in Cosmedin is a pretty park and we entered the basilica, where the mouth of truth is. We just got Rhiannon calm enough that it woulldn't bite her arm off when the fellow keeping the people moving through, came to her looked at her in the way of Italian grumpy men and slid his hand over his arm and made a slicing sound to her! She looked at me shivering as he walked away absolutely ******* himself, and I just joined in, the look she ...
19. Roma - Italy's shame!
... up at the Colosseum. The Pantheon was even more mind-blowing than I remember - the fact they can't replicate the construction of it to this day is testament to the engineering skill of the Romans. It took 25 elephants to haul each of the sixteen 80-tonne columns into place, and theory has it that the huge concrete dome was created by filling the entireee Pantheon with sand (in a 24 hour period!) and then concrete was poured into a mould - all in one go ...
THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN
... burada Roma halkını eğlendirmek için ve birazda kendi eğlenceleri için gladyatör dövüşleri düzenlerdi.
Bunlardan başka pek çok halk gösterileri, taklit deniz savaşları, hayvan avcılığı, infazlar, meşhur savaşların yeniden ...
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