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I finally got the video uploading problems all sorted out, so I’ve added three videos to yesterday’s post on the churches Rob and I visited in Rome: One of Pope Benedict XVI speaking during Chrism Mass, one of an organist practicing at All Saints’ Anglican Church, and another of a capella singing at Trinità dei [...]

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.

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 near [...]

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 some [...]

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, we [...]

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. We [...]

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 (with [...]

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 [...]

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. We hit [...]

This guest post is by Rob, my husband who always makes me laugh. As any true German does, Rob loves soccer. Yesterday, Rob described what we had to go through before actually getting tickets. Today, he tells the story of cheering against his favorite team twice and a morning full of international phone calls.

So here we were: Dressed in the red and white of Liverpool, but ultimately, hoping for them to lose. We weren’t going to support the teams they played against, but our fingers were crossed for them to lose just one time. Hopefully, that time would during be their game against Havant & Waterlooville, a team that plays in the sixth English league, which consists mostly of taxi drivers and high school teachers playing soccer part time.