Back in the States, whenever I saw a fast, flashy car, I’d think, “What a waste around here. They need to go to Montana or the Autobahn.” Now, I’ve never driven the former, but I couldn’t have guessed how accurate I was about the latter. Rick Steves described German drivers as frustrated race car drivers.…
Tag: Rome
Rome Rewind Redux
Yes, it’s been two weeks since we were in Rome, but obviously, we are terribly behind in posts. Lots of those coming. While in Switzerland last week, I wrote a really long post on my iPod Touch with the spiffy WordPress app. Of course, when I went to post the darn thing, the app crashed. …
Doing the “Must-Dos” of Rome
The past three days have been a whirlwind of sightseeing and tons and tons and tons of walking. We visited the Colosseum on Tuesday – it really is enormous and a feat of engineering built by Jewish slaves – it was good to be a Roman citizen. Part of it was destroyed centuries ago in…
Definitely Different Rome
We arrived in Rome yesterday afternoon and spent four hours trying to get into our apartment. It’s a very long story that I won’t spend more energy on but essentially we are in the fifth apartment we saw along the way and boy is it ever “interesting”. Again – no more complaining. We are moving…