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Addendum to Day 7!!
From Jackson Sipple-Asher: “One thing I liked today was the fountains of the Villa d’Este. And showing Nelson’s new brother, Leonardo, the Villa.” And some pix from Katherine Erickson! (First at Hadrian’s digs, then, at Villa d’Este.)
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Day 7, the 18th, LAST DAY! Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, & Villa d’Este…Plus, some walking!
Whew, the Italian sun was a-blazin’ today, but we poured liters of water down our throats and soldiered on like true explorers. GO, SAINTS! After breakfast, we hopped on a bus with Marco, the driver, and drove off for Tivoli and Hadrian’s Villa. From Magister Jefferson: Hadrian’s Villa lies next to the ancient Roman town…
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Addendum to Day 6! (Dinner and Nelson)
A course from our fancy dinner and Nelson at the museum!
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Day 6, the 17th: All things Vatican and the Roman Metro (& some…walking!)
Our friend, the sun, reared its majestic head again this morning as we walked to our local Metro stop, Barberini, to get over to Vatican City. (Know the stop name for the Pope’s digs? “Ottaviano,” after that guy who took Julius’s place. History abounds!) Once we got onto St. Peter’s Square, we joined a line…
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Day 5, the 16th: The Forum, Palatine Hill, Colosseum, & Cooking Italiano! (Er, and walking.)
The sun shone boldly against our backs as we walked to the Roman Forum today. It was gonna be a hot one. But hey, we’re in Italia, so we got this! The administrative center of the city, the Forum was where the serious stuff went down — politics, slaps on the back, finger wagging, and…
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Day 4: Saturday, the 15th; Visiting Keats and Shelley (Cimitero Acattolico) & Ostia! (Plus, some walking.)
An unusual start for us so far on this Day 4: some of us visited the cemetery for non-Catholics where Romantic poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley are buried. We read poems and sat with the literary giants, bathing in their genius. The rest of the crowd had an easy morning of wander and…
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Day 3 (the real full-day #2): Friday, the 14th; Baths, Maximus, San Clemente, and the Capitoline…and walkin’!
Our new day began — sun sparkling, a cool breeze a-blowin’, bellies sated from our hotel’s breakfast — with a walk to and along Circus Maximus. Did you know that those old chariot races (as seen in Ben-Hur…too dated?) consisted of seven laps around that lengthy oval? I hope the horses got some serious vacation…
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Day 2 (1?) in Roma: The Pantheon, Bernini, and a long, glorious walk.
For our second day in Rome (or our first FULL day), Belle and Megan led us first past Trevi Fountain (right around the corner from the hotel) to The Pantheon. Along the way, a Roman seagull marched through busy Italian streets as another guide and friend. So friendly, these Italians! In The Pantheon, we ogled…