Going back to my 2004 journal, I read something I had completely forgotten about! I've seen Raphael's Lady with Unicorn three times, not twice.

At that time I lived in a city four hours from Oslo, and I went to Oslo solely to see the Unicorn portrait (which was in a collection called AMORROMA. Then I went to London in November 2004 (where I met siggesot ( Read more... )

I visited the amazing Villa Borghese up north in Rome's city center on Sunday. The park surrounding the villa is gorgeous, and also lots of fun: there is an Elizabethian Globe theatre there (of course built in recent time...), there is a lake where you can rent rowing boats, and there also is big carlike tandem bikes for rent (tourists and locals ( Read more... )