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Rome on a Monday and homeward bound
Last day in Italy, and it’s a public transportation (metro & bus) strike. On this day we took a Taxi to the Trastevere neighborhood after first visiting Caffe Canova.Caffe CanovaWhat…
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Rome midday on a Sunday
The Jewish QuarterAfter havng a coffee by the Fontana delle Tartarughe, we headed into the Jewish quarter. We saw the synagogue then walked along the Teatro di Marcello and Portico di…
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Rome on a Sunday morning
Area Sacra Di Largo ArgentinaToday we walked to see cats, that and an archeologically significant area. Largo di Torre Argentina is the old Campus Martius, a publicly owned area of ancient Rome. It…
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Rome on a Saturday part 2
Yay! Tom got his Caravaggios!! We visited two more churches first then was a ways out from our Borghese gallery tour. We didn’t think we had time to walk back…
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Rome on a Saturday part 1
Galleria Doria Pamphilj We start the day with a visit to Galleria Doria Pamphilj which has a collection of the family’s art gallery. It is stunning!Close! Buy this is a Caravaggio…
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Rome on a Friday
Carvaggi-noBeen in Rome for a day and a half now. We are 0 for 3 getting a look at Caravaggios. First try was at the Basilica Parrocchiale di Santa Maria…
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Florence Day 2 – Art Ed
Today our schedule looked like this Let’s get the food pics out of the way. Pasta and gelato. This gelato us my favorite and it looks like it is well known…
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Florence Day 1
Today we traveled to Florence. Returning the scraped car at the Florence Airport, the attendant shrugged and suggested we buy him a coffee when he visits San Diego. A quick-ish…
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Sirmione water day
Riding on the water We took the ferry to Desenzano because I wanted to shop at Vestopazzo! We ate lunch there then took the ferry back. The ferry pathIt was a pretty…