November 15, 2018 - This place is old. Very old. When you walk among the narrow cobblestone alleys and ruins you feel as if you could...

November 14, 2019 - One of the key strategies to long term travel is to avoid eating out as much as possible. It is a real budget buster....

November 13, 2018 - I could not help but be moved by this image. This is the actual grave of the Apostle Paul. We know from both...

November 12, 2019 - If you come to Rome you cannot miss this enormous white marble monument near the Roman Forum. It is not old, at least...

November 11, 2018 - Following the advice of Atlas Obscura we went to find ‘Quartiere Coppede’ today. It is a neighborhood in Rome built...

November 10, 2018 - This bucolic image of Colleen walking by a small road is much more than it appears. This road is the original Appian...

November 9, 2019 - A word or two about these things. This is an Egyptian Obelisk found in front of Italy’s Parliament building on Piazza...

November 8, 2018 - We took a walk to the Galleria Borghese today. It is an art museum located in one of the few green parks in Rome. The...

November 5, 2018 - We are on the last leg of our Almafi Coast excursion before we head back to Rome. We traveled to Paestum. We were...

November 4, 2018 - After a wild bus ride, we made it to Almafi. It has been overcast but still warm with occasional belts of light...

November 4, 2018 - On our excursion from Rome we are hitting several stops along the coast that are near each other before heading back...

November 3, 2018 - Pliny the Younger was only 18 years old when he saw the disaster on August 24, 79 AD. The son of the elder Pliny who...

November 2, 2018 - We left Rome today to travel south for a few days. We arrived to a very wet Naples but that did not discourage us. We...

October 31, 2017 - We traveled outside Rome to Tivoli. It is a small town in the foothills about 20 miles east of the city. We wanted to...

October 30, 2018 - We took a walk today to an archeological site in Rome called Torre Argentina. It is a site surrounded on all 4 sides...

October 28, 2018 - On Friday, January 30th, 9 BC Gaius Octavius Thurinus walked into this altar with an entourage. He was 52 years old....

October 27, 2018 - We made it to the mountain top. Well, we finally made it to the Vatican at least. We were trying to arrange a unique...

October 26, 2018 - A potpourri of Roman tidbits today. There is a general strike today, they are common here, of the public transport...

October 25, 2018 - We traveled outside the city today to Ostia Antica. This was a colony of Rome that was situated on the Tiber River and...

October 24, 2018 - I think it is fair to say that by now we are experienced travelers. We have become adept at overcoming the various...