Tag: Rome
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VI – preview – each pale song
each pale song your hair has grown deep into the green stone of age just as hills have grown between us and oceans salt everything – sunbathers and their pastel umbrellas get away with nothing here and driftwood piles in hours heaped upon what few memories I have gathered even as my head spills…
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garnish
. on our last night in Rome the thrill of nicotine as garnish has worn off and the waitress at the hotel knows I’ll order panna cotta for dessert. after a long search for band aids the next morning we return to the Trevi Fountain and throw a coin and much later on the plane,…
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temples
a political rally leads us to the Pantheon where willing cafes smother voices with the chatter of silverware the crowds have no ebb their tanned skin pools round the columns where echoes from buskers hang like webs the sun bleaches the Fountain and its repairs are frozen by my camera we line up and you…
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Begging in Rome – Reposted at ‘Bucket List Publications’
Fantastic news, Lesley Carter has republished my ‘Begging in Rome’ post at her travel blog ‘Bucket List Publications‘ – very happy to announce it here, it was great to touch the post up again and to ‘revisit’ Italy, I’m reminded how lucky I was to visit. Just watch out for my usual rambling style! And…
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Thursday 22nd September, Rome
The Colosseum has steep steps (the downward slope once used to rush people out) and our guide moves a little fast for pictures or close examination, though we see a lot and our guide is knowledgeable. The brickwork is impressive too, the arches, thin bricks, mortar etc, it’s like a skeleton revealed after the centuries…
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Cappella Sistina
It’s sometimes reported that Michelangelo resented the four years he spent painting the 1000+ metres of the Sistine Chapel’s roof, sneaking away to work on other consignments while Pope Julius II stepped out to fight the French. But for any visitor, it was clearly a worthwhile endeavor. Trying to do it justice with words is…
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Consecration
Consecration by Pope Boniface IV (the name ‘Boniface’ meaning approximately ‘one who does good’) saved the Pantheon from the worst of the pillage and plunder in medieval times, “after the pagan filth was removed” of course. Easily one of the more spectacular and complete historical buildings in Rome, the Pantheon’s dome is a work of…
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