Day: August 10, 2018

I’m sorry this post is delayed and out of order. I was up late last night trying to put it together and was having so a lot of trouble with the wifi. I wrote a short summary of the day and intended to write longer captions on each photo. After fiddling with it for over 2 hours, I lost my summary paragraphs and couldn’t orient the photos. So I put it away and went to bed.

Only after publishing Rome Day 3 did I recall that I never finished Rome Day 2! So here’s my attempt–with better wifi–to recreate a measure of what I intended to send. I’ll attach the photos with brief captions.

Basically, we visited two very significant Jesuit Counter Reformation churches, St Ignatius of Loyola, and Gesu. Then we visited Santa Maria at Aracoeli along with the Piazza di Campidoglio, which boasts a statue of Marcus Aurelius, and the Vittorio Emmanuel II Monument. Then we went on a guided tour of the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and the Roman Forum.

Continue reading “Rome. Day 2.”

We’ve had another wonderful day here in Rome. After a nice breakfast on the roof-top terrace of our hotel––in which we finally figured out where to sit so you can be served all the espresso and cappuccino you like (which is to say, yesterday we sat in what was clearly a self-serve area)––we hit the streets at 9:00. The plan for the day was to head for Tiberina Island, tour Trastevere on the other side of the Tiber River, have lunch in Trastevere, cross back over the river for a walk along Via Giulia, and play the rest by ear.  Continue reading “Rome. Day 3.”