Detail from Trajan's Column

As much as I love hearing about the Temple of the Vestal Virgins I eagerly awaited our departure from the Forum. I wonder if it was this hot and sticky back in Julius Caesar's day? It seemed like the temperature dropped ten degrees when we climbed past this column and back up to Twenty-First Century Rome. It was still gross but at least the air seemed to move a little back up on street level.

Day Six (Thursday)

June 29th 2006
As if the regular Italian breakfast wasn't bad enough, our otherwise wonderful hotel didn't have a breakfast room that could accomodate our group. We had to walk two blocks to a tiny strip mall. The empty lots we passed were chock full of empty bottles, cardboard boxes, dog crap and waist high weeds. The breakfast stop was actually a Chinese restaurant trying to make a few extra bucks by cateri ... read more

Europe » Vatican City

Popes in their secular role ruled portions of the Italian peninsula for more than a thousand years until the mid 19th century, when many of the Papal States were seized by the newly united Kingdom of Italy. In 1870, the pope's holdings were further c... ... read more

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