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