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Rome Day 5 – St. Peter’s Basilica
Laundry in the morning. It’s been really hot here in Rome, and we’ve gone through clothes much faster than expected, so we needed to do wash some things. Fortunately, there’s a small launderette just a block down from the hotel. … Continue reading
Posted in Italy, Uncategorized
Tagged Rome, St. Peter's
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Rome Day 4 National Museum
On Sunday morning, I was not at my best after not sleeping much the previous night. We had a pipe dream about going to Mass at St. Peter’s but our dream crashed into the Roman reality of huge crowds and … Continue reading
Posted in Italy, Uncategorized
Tagged frescoes, Metro, mosaics, Musuem, pickpockets, Rome, sarcophagus
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Rome Day 3 The Colosseum +
Up and out early this morning to get to the Coliseum at 8:15. We actually got there at 8:30, but since that’s when it opened, it didn’t matter. Very, very impressive! The weight of history and sense of the long … Continue reading
Posted in Italy, Uncategorized
Tagged Colosseum, Palatine Hill, Rome, Santa Maria Maggiore
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Rome – Day 2 – Exploring the City
Fountain Statues in Piazza Navona On Day 2 of our stay, we started off by taking a tourist bus tour to see the major sites of Rome , which made sure we didn’t miss anything important. We drove past the … Continue reading
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Tagged Castel Sant'Angelo, Italy, Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Rome, Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, travel, Trevi Fountain, Vacation
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Rome – Day 1 Seeing Rome for the First Time
We arrived in Rome at just after mid-day. Our son Joe, daughter-in-law, Steph, and 14-month-old grand-daughter Freya had arrived an hour or so before we did. They found the driver of the car I’d hired to take us to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Castel Sant'Angelo, Italy, Rome, St. Peter's, travel, Vacation
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Rome – Day 0 Getting there is NOT Half the Fun
This is the first of a series of posts I’m doing on a recent trip I took to Italy with my husband Jim, son Joe, daughter-in-law Steph, and grand-daughter, Freya. We visited Rome, Florence and Varenna (a town on Lake … Continue reading
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Tagged airline travel, Florence, Italy, Rome, travel, Vacation, Varenna
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