After an easy train ride from Rome, we arrived at that most energetic of Italian cities, Naples. While the Neapolitan attitude toward personal space may seem quite off-putting, you have to admire a city that has a reproduction of the Laocoön in a metro station.
When it comes to admiring the classical age, you can’t find fault with rulers who had massive edifice complexes. Today we reveled in the remains of two of them. Continue reading
Old friends, new acquaintances and lots of beautiful things ornamented our day. We visited two museums, one church/Roman bath, and got some new views of the Roman Forum. Continue reading
Everyone needs to get away from the daily grind once in a while, and the Emperor Hadrian was no exception. Continue reading
If you’re feeling the slightest bit lonely and hunger for some friendly faces, get yourself to Rome immediately! Continue reading