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Rome - the Eternal Web Page |
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... and we experienced some culture, too! We visited the Vatican Museum, Vatican Observatory, Pantheon, a whole lot of cathedrals, and more ruins than you could shake a stick at. Important feature of Rome: You can't swing a dead cat around without hitting a priest. And you can't swing a dead priest around without hitting a cat. Must be the spawning grounds for both species. |
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Me and da fodder doing what we did best this trip - eat, drink, and be merry. Here we are at Bucci's in Castel Gandolfo. |
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Here I am perusing an original copy of "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems," the book that got Galileo in trouble. |
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On the Ides of March, we visited the restaurant poised atop the location where Julius Caesar was assassinated. We didn't have to beware. |
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Have I mentioned that things that look like perfectly innocent sidewalks are all, in fact, STREETS?!?! |
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