Summer of 2017 we decided to check out Italy. This was a good decision. Venice > Florence > Cinque Terre > Rome
On our last day, we finally got to see the Colosseum. It was the only site we visited at which we took a guided tour. This got us access to areas we would not otherwise have seen. We started the tour on the floor of the stadium, which is a Read more…
The Roman Forum was the birthplace of Rome. In its day it housed government buildings, lively market squares, temples, a house of women condemned to virginity until the age of 30 lest they be buried alive (true story) and the place where Caesar’s body was burned. Also a Chipotle. Side Read more…
Pompeii was a long hot sweaty disgusting trek to, though and back. As such I was exhausted and am now a day behind so Imma keep this brief. For a civilization that predates Christ, they were surprisingly advanced… plumbing, basic machines, drainage systems, brothels… lots of brothels, ovens, advanced street Read more…
We set out this day with very little planned and ended up all over the place seeing all kinds of wacky old crap. We learned that forums are like drugstores, there’s one on every corner… or at least what’s left of them, which isn’t much. You’d think at some point Read more…
Day Eight was all trains and napping… possibly still more interesting than the job at which you’re likely reading this but still a bit of a stretch to make interesting on my end. We pick up our story with Day Nine. Today we saw the Pantheon, which was a weird Read more…
Cinque Terre is a group of 5 small villages that we ferried between today. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are 12k words. I’m too tired to write right now. You see? Someone more alert wouldn’t have put write and right back to back. I Read more…
Today we said goodbye to Florence and took a train & bus to Portovenere. It’s a small coastal town known for Anchovies, Pesto and hillside houses brought to you by the good people at Crayola. The highlight of the day was cramming 180 people onto a bus made for 60. Read more…
There’s no sense easing into it, I’ll just dive right in. One of the wineries we visited plays Mozart 24/7 in their barrell room… to make the wine taste better. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice to say, The Fibonacci Sequence came up. Alright, done googling the Fibonacci Sequence? Read more…
Today started off with a trip to The Galleria dell’ Academia, where Michelangelo’s David is kept. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the statue… WTF, seriously? I’d like to meet your rock. David is kept in a museum that has two categories of art; things that are Michelangelo’s Read more…
First things first, it may or may not be called Il Duomo. I think the real name is much longer but I’m tired, so here we are. Please don’t tell my architecture professors. We went into The Duomo, to the top of its dome and through a museum about it Read more…