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Published: August 17th 2008
Words alone cannot express the complete elation I feel here in Rome. I think it must be noisier than what I'm hearing, but I've blocked it all out. Every moment is a dedication to my 5/6 senses & making certain our children learn as much as possible while enjoying themselves. This is easily accomplished when, for example, one recites the story of Remus & Romulus as we explore Palatine. Not to mention it also helps to give them access to "documentaries" such as "Rome" An Engineering Empire (Chris Cassel)
Caput Mundi - I've taken over 150 photos here (I'll limit my travelogue entries to under 50 😉. You're welcome :D!
Everywhere you go in the city, you come across excavation sites. Obtaining a permit to build in Rome requires some pretty fancy footwork. They know so much has been lost already in earlier efforts to develop & modernize. This, thankfully, has changed. Not surprisingly the tourists are more interested in the old than the new. I was sorry to see the High Street shops in the acres of what once were the baths & aqueducts, bringing millions of gallons of water into the city every day.
The one
thing I cannot relay through description, video or photography was the scent through the city. The scent of an antique shop, a wine cellar, the scent of soil. Delightful! Really added to the whole experience.
As one sits quietly or chats, has a cup of tea or just imagines what it was like "then" while absorbing the remains of the Pompey Theatre, the scent only adds to the mystique & ambiance. To share the same space as Tiberius, Hadrian & Trajan where they once ruled the world is indescribable. To reflect on everything I've ever read about Nero, to exercise my minds-eye as to what it must have been like to shop in the day of the Flavian Amphitheatre. Wow, what an example of engineering & architecture.
Christian, pagan, Jewish, so many have a history to be seen here.
Rome wasn't built in a day carries a whole new meaning.
I will be back.
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Erin
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Great blog and pics!
Hi, I came across your blog, great pics and blog! I too, have been to Rome and loved it!