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Sometimes I am studious!
... and Rome. Western Theological Traditions, studying the history and doctrine of the Catholic Church from St. Peter to the Vatican II council. The combination of intense lectures, difficult material, lots of papers and exams, and extensive and exhausting travel is deadly. It's difficult to find a balance between trying to see lots of amazing things in different places and attempting to complete and pass ...
Tivoli... Our Last Day
... part was the gardens! There were fountains and waterfalls everywhere! They used water aqueducts and trapped pressure underneath the surface to get all these fountains to work back then. It was amazing to think they had engineering like this so long ago. We walked through the gardens for quite some time taking lots of pictures. There were also pools of water with fish swimming and they were lined with lemon and lime trees. There were several caves as ...
Ancora 25 giorni!
La data della partenza si sta avvicinando (troppo lentamente). Qui da noi il tempo si è rimesso al buono. Sto cercando di tirar giù un programma di massima da sottoporre all'approvazione di Maretta, che è ancora impegnata con gli ...
One extreme to another!
... are taking the car back and then taking the bus into Rome. We are going to visit the Trevi Fountain and go thru the Colosseum again. It was so great the first tme. We heard that they have opened up some more of it to see.
We leave Italy on Friday morning, fly to Munich, then to London and then on to San Francisco. We should be home on Saturday. Hooray!!
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Villa d'Este
... with vines. It had so much beauty without being one of the main attractions on the site.
As it started down pouring, we had to quick flee into the small caffe for some espresso and cappuccino. A nice spot to wait out the rain overall. I would love to go back there on a better day, but we made the most of it. My pictures will speak so much louder than my words, so ...