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- Ah the Colosseum – pretty good for a 2000 year old stadium 🙂
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- Love my fountain!
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- Discovering one of Rome’s many drinking fountains
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- Our building from the fountain in the adjoining square. Look at the frame on the top. That’s us!
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- More gelato – chocolate this time
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- The bell tower of the church next door as seen from our terrace, complete with working (loud) bell.
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- Our terrace in the morning
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- Our street at night
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- There’s that football stadium again. They really need to do some work on that.
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- Loving my pink helmet and special seat!
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- Taking a break at the Catacombs of San Callisto
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- Smiling at the start of our bike trip down the Appian Way
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- Appian Way – Roman Road
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- Cappuccino!
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- Gelato!
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- Lily testing out the old Roman stones
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- Biking on cobblestones takes some effort. Lily calls it the “bumpity bumpity”
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- Biking through the park
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- Looks like we’re in Tuscany, but just inside Rome’s Appian Way
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- The Gates of Old Rome
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- Beginning the ancient Appian Way
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- One of many scenic churches
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- What the hell is this shit? Bit rundown, eh!
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- Trevi Fountain – an homage to all things aquatic
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- Trajans market next to Palace of Augustus
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- Ash in Trajans Forum – see if you can find the stray cat
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- There’s more Roman ruins around every corner when you’re just looking for the damn grocery store
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- Trajan’s Column
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- The Trevi Fountain
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- Lily throwing some money into the Trevi Fountian; in hopes of one day returning to Rome
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- The family at the Trevi Fountain
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- Piazza del Popolo
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- The occulus inside the Pantheon
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- Lily at the Pantheon alter
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- The Pantheon
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- Lily and Mummy having a snack in front of the Pantheon fountain
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- Fountain of the Four Rivers
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- This little girl is obsessed with fountains
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- Roman ruins in the Jewish Ghetto
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- Street Art by Space Invader – a french guy!
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- ‘The Wedding Cake’ – or Victor Emmanuel monument
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- Raphael’s tomb in the Pantheon
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- Pantheon marble floor
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- The open oculus in Pantheon ceiling – the building’s only light source
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- Interior of the Pantheon – as old as the ruins, but not a ruin thanks to those trusty Catholics
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- Pantheon fountain
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- Making a wish
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- Fountain of the Four Rivers – one of the river gods, I think it’s the Ganges
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- Fountain of the Four Rivers
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- One of those fabled Italian neighborhoods
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- Sant Angelo’s again
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- St. Peter’s dome from down the street
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- Castel Saint Angelo – just outside the Vatican
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- St. Peter’s Square – this time with obelisk, no nun
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- St. Peter’s Square – complete with nun
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- Swiss Guard at the Vatican
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- In case you’re shopping for Pope gear, here’s a legit Pope shop
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- No mortar holding this business together!
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- Floor of the Colosseum – how the floor would have been with tunnels underneath for lions, slaves, and Russell Crowe
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- Arch of Constantine
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- We’re not standing in front of a green screen, I promise
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- That old football oval again
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- The Stadium at Palatine Hill
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- Basilica of Constantine
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- What’s left of Caligula’s Palace
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- Walking the walk that Caesar walked
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- in the Roman Forum
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- tomb of Julius Caesar, we think
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- St. Peter’s Basilica
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- Michelangelo’s ugly hands
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- Raphael’s The Transfiguration
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- That damn church is always there!
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- Da Vinci’s St. Jerome – a miserable old man
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- Artemis – either those are breasts (lots of them) or bull’s testicles.
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- Diana the Huntress
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- Bacchus saying, “Get off my shoulders you little bugger.”
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- An old man
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- Wonderful ceiling in the papal palace, not plaster only paint.
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- The Supper at Emmaus, Jesus’ eyes are following me
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- the staggering ceiling of the map gallery
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- The vatican has a radio station – Pope FM
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- A map of Italy in the map gallery
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- Raphael’s The School of Athens
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- Matisse in the Vatican?
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- Edvard Munch – nice!
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- The Swiss Guard
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- St. Peter’s nave
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- Inside of the dome
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- St. Peter’s famous dove window
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- St. Peter’s famous dove window
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- Inside of the dome
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- Tight staircase up in the dome
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- St. Peter’s Square
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- The Sistine Chapel
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- The Vatican Gardens
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- The hot, sweaty and claustrophobic way up the dome
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- St. Peter’s dome
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- Michelangelo’s Pietà
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- The Swiss Guard
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- The Swiss Guard
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- Nuns, Nuns, Nuns
Beat Like Kerouac - now with child! 
what a great record of your trip, I bet you have a story for every picture.
fantastic. I was looking for this earlier and missed it. I’m with Ann in looking forward to the stories on each of these.