Rome is Amazing: Food Edition
We just spent a long weekend in Rome, and to tell you the truth, I feel like I am still processing it. Rome has been on my bucket list pretty much forever! It was wonderful. I ended up with well over...
View ArticleRome is Amazing: Really Old Stuff Everywhere
We were in Rome on Easter with a new Pope and about a billion Catholics, so we skipped the Vatican altogether. Saving that for another visit that does not coincide with a religious holiday of any kind!...
View ArticleRome is Amazing: Got Churches?
I thought I was over churches. And then I went to Italy. In fact, I am pretty much over Central European Baroque churches. A person can only take so many cherubs in one lifetime. But Italian churches...
View ArticleRome is Amazing: And There Were Quilts?
As a crafty person, I spent an inordinate amount of time in Rome looking at floors. I had my reasons. Tile mosaic floors have been a thing in Rome for millennia. And they are really, really cool. The...
View ArticleRome is Amazing: Street Life
While Rome definitely does not seem chaotic to anyone who has ever lived in the third world, it does have a completely different feel from very orderly (and slightly stuffy) Vienna. There is just a...
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