April 27, 2009
We visited between 30 and 40 churches, most of which were Renaissance style: Painted or carved ceilings, marble statues, lots of arches and columns, and in some, lots and lots of gold. Unlike most of the German churches I’ve been in, there wasn’t a lot of intricate stained glass windows. Ah, buy why am I telling you about it? Here are some pictures.
April 12, 2009
I’m trying to quick-blog Rome in 250 words a day (or less!). Here’s what we did on day 7, Easter Day. Buono Pasqua! Our last full day in Rome was kind of a summary of our entire trip, plus a little extra. We started by finishing our postcards and mailing them in the post office [...]
April 11, 2009
I’m trying to quick-blog Rome in 250 words a day (or less!). Here’s what we did on day 5, April 11. Today was another laid back day. We slept in a bit, I fixed the internet connection problem we were having, we moseyed our way to the metro station. We got out at Pyramide, took [...]
April 11, 2009
I’m trying to quick-blog Rome in 250 words a day (or less!). Here’s what we did on day 5, Good Friday. We started the day at the Trevi Fountain, a church with what looked like thousands of padlocks on the gate for some yet-unknown reason, the Marcus Aurelius column, and the Pantheon. On our way, [...]
April 9, 2009
I’m trying to quick-blog Rome in 250 words a day (or less!). Here’s what we did on day 4, Maundy Thursday. EARLY morning today. We had tickets to watch the Chrism Mass (Blessing of the Holy Oils) at 9:30, and we were told that we should arrive 2 hours early if we wanted good seats. [...]
April 8, 2009
I’m trying to try to quick-blog Rome in 250 words a day (or less!). Here’s what we did on day 3. I. am. sick. This is not fun, but runny nose, chills, and all, today was a great day. We had only two strict items on our agenda: picking up out tickets to Chrism Mass [...]
April 7, 2009
This is my second day of quick blogging our trip in Rome in 250 words or less. Great day! We started off early at the Colosseum and pretty much had it to ourselves. Then we went across the street to the Palantine Hill and Roman Forum. Some great ruins! We spent most of the morning [...]
April 6, 2009
I’m going to try to quick-blog Rome in 250 words a day (or less!). Here goes. Best piece of advice: buy your Metro tickets at a Tabacchio. We waited maybe 2 minutes and were able to get right on our train. Not as easy finding the hotel, but we did with only one turn around. [...]
March 9, 2009
Like many before him vehemently raging against a new idea, Alexander Zaitchik has obviously not used Twitter. So often, criticals consider the newest demon only long enough to find fault. They don’t maintain a curious or open mind to give it a fair chance. Twitter is quite often likewise written off immediately without any exploration.
March 7, 2009
Today was like many other Saturdays we’ve enjoyed in Germany: wonderful! Saturday is the day we do most of our fresh food shopping, and the last couple weekends, we’ve been trying some new things.
We started out at Aldi where we find cheap salamis, Gouda, potatoes, bell peppers, strawberries, cereal, yogurt, and other sundries.
Next stop, Perfetto, which is
