I got your postcard today, thank you very very much!! I've been to Rome once, in the (very hot) summer of 2000, it was a present for finishing highschool :) I went with my mum and we walked a lot as well, but we loved it, i wish i could go back sometime soon. It's so beautiful, there's art on every corner, and the people are so friendly, and the food! :P Thanks for sharing all of this ♥
Ahh, gorgeous pictures! I read some of the account as well, although I'll admit I'm allergic to lots of words. ;) Sounds like a tiring but nice trip...how funny to find kilts in Rome (even if it was St Patty's day)! :D
I've never been to Rome, but several of the pictures remind me of parts of Paris...maybe it's just the ignorant American in me that thinks all things non-American look similar, but the one along the Tiber reminds me of the Seine. And the domes are quite popular all over, it seems.. Paris and London and of course America. Arches too.
Don't worry about the "lots of words", I know exactly what you mean ;D I wrote this for me (I have a bad memory) as much as for the others. But I'm glad you like the pics. Very tiring trip, yes, and I still walk slowly and with difficulty, but I'm sure in a short while I'll only remember the good moments !
I think you're partly right, some area and some architectural bits look the same in every cities that were built at the same time, like the domes. But for example the historical centre of Paris is whiter - even if it's sometimes a very dirty white ;), we don't have all those colours. And Rome has many older buildings made of stones - look at the pics from the Palatine hill - from a time when Paris was still called Lutèce and my ancestors probably lived in some kind of wood cabins (I'm not quite sure about that last bit so don't take my word on it). It's a very interesting comparison, though, it makes me want to study architecture more closely.
And I think the Seine, at least in Paris, is much calmer than the Tiber.
I'm sorry you had to go with non-friends -- how challenging. Lovely pics, though, so hopefully you'll remember the good parts and forget the bad ones. :)
We went in a tavola calda once which was also a gelateria. We were fascinated by the sheer number of different cones : different forms, with or without chocolate on the biscuit, with or without coconut specks... and then all those yummy ice cream flavours you don't quite find here.
Well, I feel both sorry for you (irritating people) and happy for you (vacation in a cool place)... and jealous as hell. ;) It's been so long since I've been anywhere, really, but I used to live in Urbino, and I miss it keenly sometimes. However, I'd say you did a good job of making the most of a badish situation, and you got loads of great pictures. Probably carry good memories from them, too. :)
I googled for Urbino, it seems like a beautiful place, and maybe easier to visit over a short time ;) Can I ask why you stayed there ?
Considering I wanted to go back to Florence more than Rome, I'm happy that this is such a beautiful city, with lovable people. I probably appreciated it more than when I was a lot younger and I'm sure to keep good memories.
I went to the University there for a year. I lived two apartments down from where Raphael was born... which, okay, no one probably cares about. I also lived right up the hill from a great gelato shop and a little restaurant that served the best strozzapretti in the world. Hmm, I guess it's not hard to see what one of my favorite things about Italy was. ;)
I would have loved to study abroad, if I had known what to study !
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I don't know, it depends on whether you saw Raphael's ghost or not, and what he told you... and the way you sell your story. I know you have enough talent to do it well !
Molière said that we must eat to live and not live to eat. And I say to him to shut up ! Bring on the gelati while I admire the pretty Myron a bit more !
wow! what an amazing post, and such gorgeous pictures Siriala! Gorgeous! I felt like i was there, well, almost. i'm sorry you had such an awful time with your coworkers, but luckily, that little mexican girl made it all better for you! us mexicans are like that. :P
wow, it's impossible for me to even comment on everything that struck me as just gorgeous! it's beautiful there, and i hope that someday i will be able to go there and experience it as well. *note to self, take the bus*
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i'm glad that you were able to go, and experience it again, even if it wasn't all fun. hopefully next year, you'll do what you want, and forget the rest, it's your vacation too!
You're Mexican ? Yes, our Mexican girl was one of the very good "things" of the trip ;)
Hey, maybe you will not need the bus, you just have to know that everything is worth seeing there, so three days is certainly not enough to do it all !
Next year, I'll wait to know where my boss wants to go, and then I'll choose another destination ;D
And I'm glad to be back with you ! What about that post we talked about... ?
well, i am of mexican descent, not from mexico myself, no, but my grandparents on both sides are, well, except for my paternal grandfather, he was from Spain!
see, next time take me, and i'll make it fun for you!
and if i ever do get to go, i will definitely take longer than three days, but who knows when that will be, because i want to take three weeks just to go to great britain and france! i'm sure that is going to be lots and lots of $$.
LOL! so you can go to separate vacations from your boss? why did you choose to go to the same place this time then?
I'll take you if you speak Spanish ! ;) People always say that if you speak English you'll be understood everywhere in the world but it seems Spanish works as well ! And I'm sure you'd make it fun
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I know there's too many pics but it was too hard to choose which one to display and which one to delete. Such a beautiful place !
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I've never been to Rome, but several of the pictures remind me of parts of Paris...maybe it's just the ignorant American in me that thinks all things non-American look similar, but the one along the Tiber reminds me of the Seine. And the domes are quite popular all over, it seems.. Paris and London and of course America. Arches too.
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I think you're partly right, some area and some architectural bits look the same in every cities that were built at the same time, like the domes. But for example the historical centre of Paris is whiter - even if it's sometimes a very dirty white ;), we don't have all those colours. And Rome has many older buildings made of stones - look at the pics from the Palatine hill - from a time when Paris was still called Lutèce and my ancestors probably lived in some kind of wood cabins (I'm not quite sure about that last bit so don't take my word on it). It's a very interesting comparison, though, it makes me want to study architecture more closely.
And I think the Seine, at least in Paris, is much calmer than the Tiber.
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You've probably visited Italy/Rome already ?
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Great ! I want one now ;)
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Considering I wanted to go back to Florence more than Rome, I'm happy that this is such a beautiful city, with lovable people. I probably appreciated it more than when I was a lot younger and I'm sure to keep good memories.
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I would have loved to study abroad, if I had known what to study !
no one probably cares about
I don't know, it depends on whether you saw Raphael's ghost or not, and what he told you... and the way you sell your story. I know you have enough talent to do it well !
Molière said that we must eat to live and not live to eat. And I say to him to shut up ! Bring on the gelati while I admire the pretty Myron a bit more !
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wow, it's impossible for me to even comment on everything that struck me as just gorgeous! it's beautiful there, and i hope that someday i will be able to go there and experience it as well. *note to self, take the bus*
:D
i'm glad that you were able to go, and experience it again, even if it wasn't all fun. hopefully next year, you'll do what you want, and forget the rest, it's your vacation too!
glad to have you back though!
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Hey, maybe you will not need the bus, you just have to know that everything is worth seeing there, so three days is certainly not enough to do it all !
Next year, I'll wait to know where my boss wants to go, and then I'll choose another destination ;D
And I'm glad to be back with you ! What about that post we talked about... ?
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see, next time take me, and i'll make it fun for you!
and if i ever do get to go, i will definitely take longer than three days, but who knows when that will be, because i want to take three weeks just to go to great britain and france! i'm sure that is going to be lots and lots of $$.
LOL! so you can go to separate vacations from your boss? why did you choose to go to the same place this time then?
and yes...let me email you k? watch for it.
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