Fora Romano & Palatino

The scale of this place is remarkable. We had a book provided by Glen which showed us what it looks like now and then you can lift the flap to see what it looked like then. Helpful to provide some context to the structures.

Almost overshadowing the ancient ruins was the ridiculous poses being pulled by men and women alike as they took photos of themselves or each other - puffed up chests with tensed muscles to define the pecs for the guys, and hair pulled back round artfully to one side, trout pout and all other manner of strange body contortions for the girls. Pretty hilarious actually.Read more