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The Vatican, St Peter's Basilica & more sore feet!

A travel blog entry by cskinnear

... also spoke to Steph via freecall on Viber and it was fantastic to talk to her after 10 days. She is enjoying her tour and has lots of stories to tell. We will see her on Friday when we return to Venice to pick her up. I have had to warn her not to buy too much in Florence (which she loves like I do) as I have little room in my suitcase!!!!

Tomorrow we have a visit to the Borghese Gallery and Gardens, then off to Pompei early evening. I have enjoyed ...

Rome - Day 1

A travel blog entry by dellomofamily

... the 3 adult siblings work the front desk, mama does breakfast and papa helps all over. We checked in, chilled just a bit, and were off. First we wanted to get our train tickets for the rest of the trip ahead of time and were succesfull. Second, we hit the traditional tourist desistinations... Spanish Steps, Via Condotti, the Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain. Today we ate paninos, pizza, pasta and gelato of ...

In the beginning- Creation of Adam, & the Vatican

A travel blog entry by saaimas

... that we'd stood in the wrong line! We had gone to St Peters Basilica instead, but truthfully we didn’t mind at all, as it was really worth our while. It was truly beautiful, absolutely chocked full of art.

By complete accident we even found the sculpture that was on Mari’s to do list here in the Basilica. The statue of Mary holding Jesus in her lap - the Pieta, which is the only of Michelangelo's works that he signed. We did ...

Give me your bags and leave for now....

A travel blog entry by lizandtory

... to encompass two days since we left on Saturday morning and the end of my "day 1" is Sunday night in Rome. ANYWAYS, we left Rochester this morning around 12:00 after a small delay (i.e. our plane hadn't arrived to Rochester yet) in a small regional jet. Liz thought it was tiny, but I thought it was average for a regional jet. Actually, we had way more leg room on this plane than any other plane I had been on, including the huge plane I'll ...

Rome - Pantheon, Fountains and Stairs

A travel blog entry by marymichael84

... 8217; as per usual. You just start to run out of words to describe this amazing place and all its treasures. On the way home from buying some groceries I decided to pop into the church right next to where we are living…. And …you guessed it…this out of the way church would put anything we have in Australia to shame…and it just goes on and on.

When we finished looking at the Trevi Fountain, I was feeling a little under the weather and decided to ...