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Europe 2019
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- Oct 1, 2019, 5:14 PM
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 115 ft
- Italy Latium Rome San Paolo Monte Aventino 41.8836, 12.487641°53’1” N 12°29’15” E
Day 15
On strike!
October 1, 2019 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Honestly could not walk another step so I am protesting right here with this bottle of wine... oh and him in doors! (The ruins are the Circo Massimo) chariot racing arena built in the 6th century BC and was the first and largest stadium built in Ancient Rome and is still used today. (Although the beast hunts have stopped!!) And in the 1980s they uncovered tiered seating and the starting gates but covered them up again to a depth of 9 m....Read more
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- Oct 12, 2024, 11:30 AM
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 31 m
- Italy Latium Rome San Paolo Monte Aventino 41.883842, 12.48849241°53’2” N 12°29’19” E
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Fabuleuse Rome !!!
October 12 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Lever à 8 h , on part vite pour Rome. Velo le long de la mer 20 mns, 1/2 h de métro (1,5. € le ticket , 1/2 h de trajet) et à peine sortis de la petite gare, ça commence! Tous les 100m , arrêter le vélo , cadenas , photos , repartir , c’est infernal ! Mais quel bonheur! Il fait soleil , 25*c, du monde mais pas foule,, en tout cas pas la grande, et cette ville est juste splendide ! Jenna , après la traversée d’un pays en 2024 , inaugure avec moi le tour d’un pays complet: le Vatican . Pas vu le pape dont d’ailleurs le nom m’échappe tellement il me paraît , pardon , banal. Pas vu non plus ni Audrey Tautou ni Tom Hanks.
Retour vers 17 h au train. Jenna s’est pris une insolation: elle me propose à l’instant d’aller nous baigner ! Je crois que j’ai dit oui. Merde , je ne sais plus dire non à mes filles. N’en profitez pas !!!!!
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Traveler Aaaah le théâtre Marcello, j’adore
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Traveler Ah ben zut elle n’a pas l’air contente d’être là
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Traveler Je confirme, elle fait la gueule et n’attend qu’une chose , le retour à La Rochelle sous la pluie et le reste !
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Traveler Angel Safari with Fred
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- Oct 25, 2023, 1:48 PM
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitude: 43 m
- Italy Latium Rome San Paolo Santa Sabina 41.884218, 12.48087541°53’3” N 12°28’51” E
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Day 3
Perfect day!
October 25, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Hard to know what to include because you can get all the pictures you want of these places. Hard to describe the difference of actually being there!

Lots of fun facts today: Arena is the Italian word for sand. It was built over a former lake. It was named for a colossal statue (colosi-eum) that was near it, and the statue was as tall as the Coliseum! No Christians were fed to the lions, only criminals. And I got a picture of the toilet trench, because.toilets.seem to be a focus of this tripRead more
Traveler Breakfast literally a stones throw from. the Coliseum
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Traveler It was supposed to pour rain all day. Instead the weather was perfect
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Traveler Weird crows here.
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Traveler Angel Safari with Fred
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- Oct 26, 2023, 7:31 PM
- ☁️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 43 m
- Italy Latium Rome San Paolo Santa Sabina 41.884248, 12.48086441°53’3” N 12°28’51” E
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Day 4–7
Our neighborhood: the hangout of Remus
October 26, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Our neighborhood is the most posh since history began and is on the most defensible hill that the Romans fled to when the empire fell and their riches were sacked. Also it was where Romulus' brother Remus wanted to start Rome, not one hill over. ROMULUS LATER KILLED HIS BROTHER. these are the guys who were raised by a she wolf and founded Rome. she-wolf is a euphemism for a prostitute.
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Dad and I napped in the grass next to a temple to Hercules on the site of the original Livestock sale where Hercules was called upon the get sheep back from a thief who took them from the market and hid them in a cave. I could relate.

We saw a church made from the stolen columns of a temple... like most of them ... but this one had a magic orange tree you can see through a hole that is always in bloom while always having Oranges ready to harvest. The oldest orange tree in the world they say. And indeed it had fruit.

I got sad listening to a saiints tale about a son who returned home and died under his parents steps becuase he was too impoverished to return to them. Made me want to cry. They built a church for him that includes the actual steps.

We had dinner next to the circus maximus where they had chariot races 2500 years ago, so I told everyone about Chuck wagon races. It was pizza.

Pizza in Rome, ya'all.Read more
Traveler The poor son dieing under his parents stairs. What could be sadder?
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Traveler Circus maximus. The marble stands held 30,000 fans but were cannibalized for later buildings.
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Traveler Pizza. Anchovies on the side.
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Traveler Angel Safari with Fred
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- Oct 26, 2023, 7:25 PM
- ☁️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 43 m
- Italy Latium Rome San Paolo Santa Sabina 41.884239, 12.48084441°53’3” N 12°28’51” E
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Day 4
Behind the Pantheon
October 26, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Bonus points for the high fashion Cartheart jacket in the sales window. Who knew Dennis was Itiallian chic? Wr also found where the pope goes to shop. Also, ridiculously high doorknobs never fail to amuse.Read more
Traveler This is the lesser known backside of the Pantheon.
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Traveler Where chic priests shop
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Traveler Short people not allowed I guess.
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Traveler Mittelmeerkreuzfahrt
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- Sep 27, 2023, 3:53 PM
- ☀️ 31 °C
- Altitude: 25 m
- Italy Latium Rome San Paolo Circus Maximus 41.885956, 12.48448541°53’9” N 12°29’4” E
Day 5
Abenteuer Bike Ausflug in Rom🚴
September 27, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Mitte dor d Stadt Rom simmer gradlet. Isch a tolli Tour gsi. Mängmol hesch eifach müessa fahra.... Augen zu und durch. Au d Informatione vom Michele sind interessant gsi. Sini Ussag: Alle Wege führen nach Rom.Read more
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Traveler Schönes Wetter, gute Küche, ein schwimmendes Bett, interessante Städte wie Rome - was will man mehr ……..
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Traveler Europe 2024
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- Apr 27, 2024, 3:18 PM
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Altitude: 46 m
- Italy Latium Rome San Paolo Giardino degli Aranci 41.88298, 12.4784741°52’59” N 12°28’42” E
Day 6
Knights of Malta keyhole.
April 27 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
So we walked around 8k’s.
We waited just short of 2 hours.
A slow, sunny wait.
In the sun.
To have a peek in a keyhole.
Apparently you see, Malta, Italy and St Peter’s.
We peeked in the hole for maybe 30 seconds. Then moved on.Read more
Traveler At least you can tick it off your bucket list😊
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- Oct 26, 2023, 7:07 PM
- ☁️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 43 m
- Italy Latium Rome San Paolo Giardino degli Aranci 41.884233, 12.48089441°53’3” N 12°28’51” E
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Day 4
Rome, actually
October 26, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Random Rome pictures... amazing day. We ended up in our own neighborhood on a tour to discover we may have the best BnB in the entire city once we learned this history of our surroundings. Our hosts told us we were in the most exclusive neighborhood. I'll add info to each picture later. Right now, I'm just uploading and going to bed.Read more
Traveler Just an annunciation on a regular building. Nothing odd here.
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Traveler Is this the best picture ever, or what?
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Traveler This is on the wide street.
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Traveler A pigeon bathing in Trevi fountain.
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Ulrich Beinert David Gilmour a Roma
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- Oct 3, 2024, 7:30 PM
- 🌧 20 °C
- Altitude: 15 m
- Italy Latium Rome San Paolo Roseto di Roma Capitale 41.887028, 12.48351341°53’13” N 12°29’1” E
Day 2
Beyond Words
October 3 in Italy ⋅ 🌧 20 °C
Strange, the way the mind works. "Beyond Words" comes to mind. There's a Pink Floyd song "Lost For Words".

The main event. The reason for this trip. The final David Gilmour concert in Europe (on this tour, hopefully not forever).

Circo Massimo, a place with such incredible history. I regret missing Gilmour play in Pompeii, this is making amends. The sky testing me. 15 mm of rain in the two hours prior. Who plans this stuff open air?

Soaked to the bone (except around the middle, thanks to the truly waterproof Haglöfs rain jacket), I honestly consider leaving. For a short moment.

Meet a wonderful French-Dutch family, skipping from French to German to English. Grateful to have a common language, despite regrets I don't speak one of their languages as well as they speak mine. Making a note to study and travel more!

Soaked to the bone, shivering a bit from the cold, no longer thinking about leaving. Grateful for human connection and – Pierre noticed and pointed it out – no one using their phones. Thank the heavens for the rain!

Slight delay, Gilmour starts playing. Solo album songs and, of course, Pink Floyd. The crowd decidedly more excited about the latter. The price for having done something so great earlier in life. No chance to make a truly unique mark anymore.

The music: lost for words. No photos or videos. You have to see and hear it for yourself. You'll find it on Youtube soon enough. Do yourself a favor. Don't watch it. Buy tickets for the show. And leave your phone in your pocket. Stop being your life's cameraman and start living it!

Two and a half millennia of history at this site and I get to live as one of the greatest guitarists of all time performs. The rain has stopped, the clouds clear, stars dot the sky above, Gilmour bends the high notes.

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- May 24, 2024
- ☁️ 26 °C
- Altitude: 27 m
- Italy Latium Rome San Paolo Circus Maximus 41.885594, 12.48486741°53’8” N 12°29’6” E
Day 31
Rome 3
May 24 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Oh Rome! My country! City of the Soul! (Byron)
Derek left early planning on beating the crowds at the Pantheon, then more wandering before going to the Vatican for his tour of the museums and Sistine Chapel (which he said was fabulous and overwhelming).
I managed to buy tickets online for the Palantine Hill and the Forum last night, so that was our plan for the day. Judith and I caught the bus at the end of the street to the Via di San Gregorio entrance to the Palantine Hill. Much quieter than the Forum entrance, and getting there reasonably early ( before 10) there was almost non-one else there to disturb the beauty and quiet of the parkland and our viewing of the ruins. It was fabulous and the viewing areas spectacular. The crowds didn't grow until we got closer to the Forum, and fortunately we were going against the flow of traffic. Loved the Forum too - it was our first time being in the Forum and so glad we did it.
We left the Forum by a side entrance and after only a short walk we were at Circus Maximus, and a nice cafe for lunch. Then we crossed the road to enter the Roseta di Roma ( city Rose Garden) which was lovely and featured prize winning roses of the International Rose competition. We then walked to nearby Giardino degli Arancini (Orange Garden) which was a real highlight with a magnificent Belvedere ( viewing terrace) from the Avantine Hill.
We walked down the steep escarpment of the Hill, along the river to tram stop and back to apartment
After a little rest we headed back to our little piazza in Trastevere - this time enjoying pizza. Another lovely eveningRead more
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