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Europe » Italy » Lazio » Isola Sacra December 10th 2005

so, i don't believe i will be making another full post until i'm back in the united states, but i just wanted to give everybody who reads this a quick itinerary of upcoming events. i'm done with my finals, and have one paper to write and turn in by monday. on tuesday, i leave for amsterdam with laura and keri. we will be flying back to rome on the 17th. i fly to london on the afternoon of the 19th. i will be spending the remainder of that day and a good portion of the 20th in heathrow airport in london. finally, after 24 hours in that airport, i will be flying to chicago, and from chicago i will be going to tulsa, where i hope to see as many of you as possible. i have ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Isola Sacra October 29th 2005

The remains of ancient Rome's sea port - Ostia Antica - are pretty well known, but not so much the cemetery - Necropoli di Porto - linked with it, located on the other side of the Tiber on Isola Sacra. We'd been talking about going for months... After doing a little research on Sean's part we followed instructions he found at http://www.ostia-antica.org/visiting.htm. We woke up earlyish to catch the 10:30 into Rome Termini then took the Metro B as in Blue line toward Piramide stop where you catch an overground 'train' towards Ostia Antica or Ostia Centro to the beach town of the same name of Ostia. All the 'trains' go to the same place so there is no reason to worry about getting on the right or wrong trian just follow everyone else to the ... read more
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