Pace Elvezia
Travel Blogs from Rome
Staples Center...OF DEATH
... from a building that used to stand there and now it has 3 beautiful fountains. By this time, we were pretty dang hot (it was about 80 with lots of humidity and lots of people) so we bought some water and doubled back towards the metro to see the Trevi Fountain.
The Trevi Fountain has tons of seats in front of it. We were pretty tired and Kyle was sore so scored a couple of spots in the shaded area with a backrest for Kyle. ...
Night Tour @ night
... water!
We then made our way back to the Piazza Navona, which we found out was a stadium built by the descendant of the guy who built the collesseum. And this time instead of many art and performers, there was just many people taking photos of the fountain, which had a different guy representing the 4 rivers of the earth (Euphrates-was the easiest river to sail, so he had a pole which was for steering the boat, Danube-was the closest so he had was ...
I stood where Julius Caesars funeral was!!
... really can't believe I forgot to mention the taxi driver than offered us Tic Tacs, that was hilarious and should've told us how awesome the day was going to be).. so go read hers too:
http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog-e ntries/nicky7a/2/13180165237tpod.html
Thoughts are turning to home now that I only have a few days in Stockholm to go. Really sad to say goodbye to Rome though but I think I will be back when I get rich and go and live on the Amalfi Coast ;)
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Neato Gecko
... originally when I had ended up with fries and hotdogs on my pizza (see pictures on a previous post). This time I ordered a ham and mushroom pizza that was much more delightful.
Rome wasn't built in a day
... that we had not planned. It took us to a simply precious little church at the top of Rome and that was it.....a church with a view and the stations of the cross. There, there they were, the little candles that I expected to see at the Vatican. There they were, the ones that Mom loved to light. So Keith dropped in the coins and I lit three candles. We made our way back down and stoped a number of times to enjoy the view. It was much easier to find ...