Rome

Forewarning: the spell check here is in Italian. There may be a few misspellings, sorry Keith.

Days 1, 2 & 3 were spent in Rome.

After spending 13 hours on a plane over the pond, we arrived in Rome at 10 am and spent the entire day touring the city. 38 hours of saying awake made for sleeping very well on a firm mattress at the convent, where we stayed while in Rome.

Some of the highlights: click on any foto to view full screen.

The Colloseum:
The Roman Forumn, the heart of Rome at its peak.
Eric's 'I was there foto' of the Forumn. I know, I don't like it either.
The view while having Lasagna at the Pantheon.
A sculpture of John the Baptists very much severed head.A fruit thing that was pretty much amazing.
Saint Peters Bacilica: The biggest church in the WORLD. I am sitting in the plaza below the church, near the obalisk. Please note the top of the dome in this picture.522 steps above the ground floor of the church, this picture was taken from the top of the dome. I was sitting in the center of the plaza pictured below. That might give you a sense of scale here, but probably not. This place is rediculously HUGE.
A sweet shot of a rather well done hedge in the Vatican, also taken from the dome of St. Peters.
The cars there were on the smaller scale for sure.
The Trevi Fountain, if you toss a coin into the pond, you will come back to Rome...
We are now off to Florence. I hear that there is a good market there for buying things...Then to Padova, Ravenna and Venice.

Until next time...