Naples - Rome (Train) 29-30 August … apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? Our very British walking-tour guide, who has his PHD on the Roman Empire, states - rather matter-of-factly - that the most accurate and concise summary of Rome’s contribution to western civilisation that he knows of is the scene in Monty Python’s, 'The Life of Brian'. Reg (played by John Cleese), the leader of the People’s Front of Judea, is justifying support for an attack on the Roman government and actually manages to frame a rather accurate inventory of benefits bestowed by the Empire. Our guide also did a rather cracking rendition of the entire scene for the benefit of the group. Incidentally, he
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