Did you know that ITALICS were created in Italy?.. also lots of memorable, singable songs. We promised NOT to hum any in public, but after the requisite coin toss into the Trevi Fountain (could barely get near it with all the tourist hordes), getting Papal Blessings and imagining driving a large car again, we took our last leisurely two-day La Dolce Vita stroll through Rome with a few tunes begging to leap from our lips. All the shops, secret spots and great restaurants are CHIUSO for August - why cater to unappreciative tourists and naive college students? While I didn't get a chance to purchase my Cardinal Socks, we saw enough churches to last a lifetime and picked up a few singularly tasteless religious souvenirs. We went out of our way to not get involved any conversations about Mosques and World Trade Centers. By Friday, we were definitely ready to head home. We'd seen ruins, palaces, palaces built on top of ruins, ruins woven into every aspect of architecture, politics and morality.
I've come to the conclusion that just because something is old AND italian, doesn't necessarily make it good. We have 1673 photos to demonstrate this thesis if you are interested...
Are you going to put all 1673 photos somewhere on the web so we can see them? At least the best 500. Sounds like our trip to Africa. Between the three of us we took over 5000. No wonder it has been more than two years and we are still trying to condense them into a book.
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