It’s raining again. I just want this rain to go away and the sun to come out - that’s all I ask. Oh well. We headed over to the Vatican again this morning. I took some more pictures without the rain - even though it was still over cast. I took real pictures though, with real film. I get really excited about real photographs. I get to experience it now, but it’s like a little present when I get the film developed in 3 months! I also mailed some more postcards from the Vatican; stamps are cheaper there. Just one class [View Full Entry]

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Rainy day in Rome. We went to the Vatican this morning. It was gross and rainy again. We tend to get bummed out when it rains. At least I feel like if it’s raining we can’t really do much, and I came here to do stuff!! But we did go to the Vatican, and the line to get in the museum was wrapped around the entire piazza. There was no way we were waiting in that line in the rain. Some other time. We’ve officially booked out trip to Barcelona! As exciting as it is, it was rather frustrating, for me [View Full Entry]

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Today Robyn and I toured the Vatican Museum (including Sistine Chapel) and saw everything there was to see in St. Peter’s Basilica. We did the Dolce Vita stroll down Via del Corso and did some window shopping down to the Spanish Steps. Then when we tried to take the metropolitana home it had closed, we saw the last train go by! It was only 9:30 PM and on a Friday night, the Romans sure know how to ruin the party! 2 hours later we finally made it back to our hotel, and this includes an hour of walking, one hour of [View Full Entry]

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His Eminence raises his eyes from the document he was studying, he sees me and with austere manners signals me to enter. It’s not exactly an invitation, it’s rather the badly disguised blow of tail of a horse tryin to get rid of annoying flies. He’s clearly receiving me in bad will: an awful beginning. It had taken me weeks to get an appointment, then, once fixed such a meeting, causes of act of God had held him away from the episcopal palace: just that day, just at that hour! Hence, this time I showed up without any appointment, adducing the [View Full Entry]

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I went to the Vatican today. I climbed up the cupola of Saint Peter's Basillica. The walk is quite exhausting as there are many steps which curve up, some of which are steep and narrow. The top offers a great view of the Vatican and Rome. I got to see the Pope (one has to get tickets beforehand). He holds a general audience on Wednesdays, and the room is completely packed. I got in an hour before it started but I still got seated at the back. That ended up being great, because the Pope enters through the back, and allowed [View Full Entry]

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11 de Novembre Sono le nove e mezzo We are just finishing colazione (breakfast); we are sitting here at the hotel restaurant, drinking not-very-good coffee, waiting for Carrie. Today is "Vatican Day". We'll start with St. Peter’s Basilica, then go to the Vatican museum, visit the Sistine Chapel, and at 2:30 we have a reservation for an archeological tour of the excavation of the necropolis below St. Peter’s. Our hotel is in the Vaticano area, so it is a very short passeggiata. St Peter’s Basilica - ->We just completed a visit to the cupola of St [View Full Entry]

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Back in Roma on Monday, 23 Ottobre, we chose to buy tickets for one of the hop on-hop off buses. These are pretty good values as the tickets are good for 24 hours. The plan is to cover everything to San Pietro on the bus and then come back around after to hop off and see the sights missed before the Vatican. We were able to cover a lot of real estate and save our feet. We did a drive by at Circus Maximus, which is now a place for joggers; not a single chariot in sight. Behind it is the [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, Yes, yes I am still alive & I am in Scotland. I have been very slack with the computer but I am hoping to make up for it now. I last left you after Venice so now the story continues........ We had a long & boring trip from Venice to Roma. It wasn't the longest in hours but we all kinda got bus - fever & went a little silly. We started throwing things at each other & lauging over the most stupid things. Daz, our bus driver made a couple of extra stops for us that day, he [View Full Entry]

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Continued from last entry: The next day we headed on our long journey to Rome. We didn't go to the hotel first, Louise took us on a tour even though she wasn't allowed to. We saw but didn't go in the Colloseum. We went in the Pantheon and sat on the Spanish Steps. We saw the Trevi Fountain and were supposed to throw three coins in. One for good luck, one to come back to Rome and one for true love. I only threw in two, since I think i've already found true love and partly because I don't want to [View Full Entry]

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Hey Y'all, Well, today was such a crazy day. I woke up at 6:00 am to get to the Vatican, and the Vatican Museum, and Jessie and I got into St. Peter's with no problem, and no line. We took the elevator up to the top of the Duomo, and then hiked up 320 stairs. I was actually getting quite claustrophobic as we inched our way to the top, because the wall started coming in and the stairs were winding round and round. When we reached the top, we could see out for miles. It was so breathtaking it brought tears [View Full Entry]

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