Villa Eur Rome

... government since the last real King of Italy abdicated in 1943. Silvio is king now, owns the largest private broadcasting companies and controls all the public ones. Soccer and game shows with big breasted women account for most of the TV programming. News is for Albanians.

The place can be so profound and so trivial. Piazza Navona, an oval laid out 2000 years ago as an arena, and occasionally flooded for battle re ...

... Pantheon, which is about half an hour walking from the Villa and gardens.  On our way there we stopped at the Piazza Navona, which is notorious for pickpockets, but has great fountains and a pretty church, St. Agnes I think.  The entire church was decorated, from floor to top of the ceiling and dome.  After seeing the church we walked back to the Pantheon and went to our group meal at a restaurant nearby ...

... engagement and she didnt want to spoil flatness of her stomach. But I always thought Belly Dancers had to have a more rounded and pronounced belly so they can roll coins and even currency notes from bottom to top and down again. I saw this on the Travel & Living Channel! Our visit to the Vatican and St. Peters Basilica was quite awe inspiring but I was so busy clicking photos that I hardly rememeber seeing ...

... wrestling with the rest of their hand luggage. We finally made it to the front of the security queue, me holding up my jeans (now minus the belt) and barefoot. Almost as expected, I managed to set off the metal detectors as I passed through and then had to warn the lady who got the job of patting me down that she had better be careful as my trousers were likely to fall down at the slightest touch! (There are, there ...

... putted along after this, trying to make as may sights on the map. We made our way back to Capotine Hill for another look at the ruins, and tried to find the stature of Romulus and Remus. Which is housed in a museum, which was once again too late to visit. As the day drew to a close, gelati and Italian food bellowed, and who's to come in the way of that! Our Roman stop was at an end, and our next point of call was Naples. Only a short train ride away!

... people where the good places are to go, try to make life easy and interesting for them. I figure after I get settled into a routine here, and get an idea of how much sleep I will need, then I will start looking for another job in the day to bring a bit more money and keep me occupied. So, I've decided to use my time wisely, and I will begin studying Spanish again during the nights while I am waiting here bored ...

Got up not so early, had a casual breakfast in the hostel and headed out to
the Colosseo. On our way there we passed a street with many Chinese export
stores. Those shops have Chinese names and most of them sell clothes... or
export clothes? It was interesting to see Chinese stuff there.
Outside of the Colosseo we were approached by an English-speaking lady
introducing us to a ...

... of our small touring group which included a mom and daughter from Argentina, a couple from Australia, and two Italian couples. At first there was not much conversation granted the language barriers but our tour leader more than made up for it. Not only can she speak Spanish, Italian, and English one right after the other but she, as Ennio (the Australian husband) later joked, also has the gift of the gab. We drove through Tuscany to our first stop, Siena ...

My time in beautiful Roma comes to a close On Friday mum and I went to the our families piazza, 'Piazza del Popolo' to celebrate my birthday. On the way there I was tempted to push mum into the Trevi Fountain but instead tossed in 1 Euro in the hope that I will return to Roma one day. The Spanish Staips were also on the way and I had a fleeting moment of madness when I thought about stealing a mini and driving ...

's Ochtends in Porto Ferraio waait er een straffe wind en zijn we behoorlijk moe, dus nog maar een dagje blijven liggen. Maar er is geen plek meer voor ons, dus besluiten we om Elba rond te zeilen naar de andere kant. Het weerbericht hebben we niet geluisterd, maar het ziet er haalbaar uit. We gaan pas laat weg, met 1 rif en een kleine fok gaan we op pad. Buiten de haven halen we het rif er uit want het is eerst lekker rustig. Als we de eerste kaap ...