Rome - part I

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December 26th 2007

Published: December 28th 2007

When in Rome - see what the Romans did 2000 years ago Now over Christmas and New Year I am visiting Rome in Italy. To be honest it was not on my top-10 list of places where to spend Christmas. But since affordable flight tickets to other places were scarce this year (and I am a miser) this is where I ended up. But Rome is a wonderful city and I have been planning on going here for several years ... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Statue at Piazza del Popolo

Piazza del Popolo is one of the most visited squares in Rome. This spectacular statue dominates one of the sides

Spanish steps - and 1000 tourists

The Spanish Steps are famous. Why I really don't know. I think there was a film made here once but it might be for some other reason. Today it attracts thousands of tourists.

One of four fountains

At a corner of the street Via Delle Quattro Fontane (Four Fountains) there are four fountains. This is one of them.

One of four fountains

At a corner of the street Via Delle Quattro Fontane (Four Fountains) there are four fountains. This is one of them.

Palazzo Barberini

Different view of one of Rome's palaces.

What were they thinking?

What did they think when they put those brass columns there? "Yeah, let's put a dick on each side of the gate!" And don't even get me started on what has soiled the column on the right...

29th December 2007

Reskaninen
Reskanin

Hälsa!
Hälsa Rom från mig och käka god pasta i Trastevere. En polare lyckades klättra in på Colosseum en sen natt och dricka whisky, vilket jag är evigt avundsjuk för, men jag antar att det inte känns som din grej att göra? Trevligt med hänglåset :-)

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