In my last post I didn’t mention our rather interesting accommodation in Venice. We decided to stay in this monastery (of all things!) called Instituto Canossiano. The internal courtyard was pretty. The entry was was pretty nice too! We have a funny story about staying here though. Whenever you went out you had to leave…
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Beautiful Venezia
We boarded the train in Florence, bound for Venice. We had seats booked in rows 7 & 8 (facing each other) and amazingly discovered that Denise and Graeme had seats booked in the same row! We knew we were all going on the same train, but didn’t know we were seated adjacent to each other!…
Friends in Florence
We left Rome early in the morning by train. There was a bit of fog on the hills still, but the fog lifted to reveal some beautiful scenery: There were fields of sunflowers, past their prime all bowing their heads, ready for harvest of their seeds. When I wasn’t looking out the windows I was getting the…
Finishing Roma
YES! Fast Wifi at last! 🙂 So, continuing with our last day in Rome. I love the way the Romans make up for not having a garden by creating a garden on the roof! And this florist on a back alley. So, so beautiful! The old and the new means of transport: Those little…
Our last day in Rome
On our last day in Rome we decided to go and visit the Trevi Fountain, Spanish steps, and whatever else we came across! 🙂 This church was the first thing we “came across”, just around the corner from where we were staying, it is the Basilica of Saint Mary and the Angels. It was not a…
Ruined forever!
Towards the end of the day we decided to go to the ruins of the Roman Forum. We walked there on a road following the Tiber river. On the way we went across to this island in the middle and had a drink there, then carried on. We walked past these ruins which include marble sinks:…
The Vatican Museum
So. After leaving St Peter’s we walked around to the Vatican Museum and queued for another 4o minutes to get into the museum! This museum is just incredibly unbelievable. We saw so many marble statues: And so many frescos, art, mosaics, tapestries, treasures etc.. Here’s just a very small sample (truly!!!) of what we saw:…
Day two in which we did too much.
Well, too much to fit into one post anyway, so I’ve decided to divide it into 3 portions. Firstly St Peter’s Basilica. We left our apartment early and went to the Vatican City via the underground Metro. We had a nice chat with a young American couple on the way, after we helped them get…
When you wake up in Rome…
And this is what you see on the ceiling above you! Oh yes, it IS that beautiful!!! It kind of epitomises Rome: old, historic, beautiful. I LOVE this fresco, it has so much detail on it, birds, roses, lace, tassles: The artist did an amazing job of making the lace and fabric look real! This little…