I got up early this morning because the room of people (who I had yet to even see if not meet due to the room being in total darkness from my arrival at Allessandro Downtown Hostel) all got up, russled lots and generally started the day for me.
Allena and I had decided to hit the Vatican so after a bit of organising and for me unpacking my bits and pieces we set off.
A couple of metro tickets later and my first experience of the colourful Roman subways we arrived at Vatican City.
Already (10.30 am) the queues for St Peters and the Museum were horrendously long.
We walked around St Peters Basillica, took photos and deferred the rest til "later". Instead we headed for the Castile St Angelo which was absolutely amazing. Inside there were so many beautiful and extremely old frescoes and a particularly excellent Statue of the Archangel Michael complete with awesome bronze wings (see my picture).
The views across the river Tiber were spectacular with the haze over Rome only completing the effect.
We walked back through the old town and every turn seemed to have us finding a treasure of some sort. A fabulous and very Italian Deli was lunch. With Italians almost screaming their orders around us we finally got to get two huge slices of Pizza fresh from the oven and set back out into the street munching away. The Pantheon, Piazza Navonna (which I choose to call Stinky Piazza), Teatro Marcello, the ruins in what was the Jewish Ghetto, The Forum, The Collosseum.... so many things to see and we walked around all of them. Today only from the outside but even that is so very very impressive. It surprised me firstly how Grand and BIG everything is but also how tightly packed in it all seems to be. It amazes me how they get those impressive shots in all the guide books with the monuments being so closely surrounded by other buildings.
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jen
at 11:01 PM
Friday, March 21, 2003
Monserrat Spain
Up and out, then only to realise just as I had alreayd waited for an hour for the train, that I hadn't tiold the hotle I wasnt leaving for another day.
So I had to go back, pack up and move my things to another room. That took ther besrt part of an hour and a half with the long cab journeys each way DAMN!
More to come but I have to go to sleep now...
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jen
at 3:42 AM
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Hi this is a space maker for the blog I have to write for today ( and the shot I need to put up...
THINGS I HATE ABOUT BLOGGER
1) You canīt back date anything... so if I want to go back and put up all my stories of all the last few places they will all be out of date sync and all in a big list :(
2) no actual help desk so if something goes wrong... NADA
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jen
at 8:13 PM
