The cemetery in the Testaccio neighborhood in Rome has many names; Campo Cestio, The Protestant Cemetery, The Non-Catholic Cemetery for Foreigners, or the Cat Cemetery. It holds the grave of the poet John Keats, the famous pyramid of Rome, about 40 cats, and most importantly it holds the grave of Emelyn Story. What’s that, you […]
Locals bustle around the market picking out fresh vegetables and carry on in conversations in Italian with the shop stall owners; the ease in the conversations lets you know that they’ve known each other a lifetime. A breeze blows through the open air market leaving the scent of fresh flowers in the air of the […]
Rome, Italy photography I’ve been to Rome many times before and I’ve even taken my camera and shot many photos there. However, with each year I improve in my photography, so this trip was quite special for me as I was able to finally get some of the shots I’ve always wanted to get. I […]
We turned off the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and my body swayed with the motion of the taxi; happy to finally be in Rome. After days of stressing out about meeting my niece at the airport (since we both arrived from different countries), I was finally able to relax in the back of the taxi. […]
For this Photo of the Week you get a special treat…many photos because I couldn’t choose just one! 4 days of Milan, Italy photography I recently spent 4 days in the Milan area traveling with a local friend. This part of Northern Italy was new to me. We traveled around Piacenza, Lake Le Garda, and […]
If you know these food etiquette rules you’ll start to fit in as if you were an Italian; ok that may be a bit much, but at least you won’t stick out as a tourist as much. Throw around a Ciao and Gazzie mille and you will be even more convincing.
View Italy Photography View Rome Photography Italy makes it into my travel ‘record book’ – it is the country in which I’ve stayed the longest amount of consecutive time. I arrived in this pasta haven at the end of April – so that makes 2 months in Italy. I had grand expectations of Italy as […]
View Rome Photography View snapshots of Rome and Siena snapshots Over the 6 days Micah and I were in Rome, we realized that we had a lot of in common…we liked to see the sites, but we liked to see a different side of the sites – and we both loved to people watch. Ok […]
In this current era of President Trump, we seem to forget that back in 2007 no one liked our US President, George W. Bush, either. I recall the hardships and learnings of what it was like to travel when the world hates your president, like this trip I did to Rome in 2007. Politics And […]
View Slide Show of Rome’s Dirty Little Secret We all have them…secrets…sometimes small, sometimes big, sometimes innocent, and sometimes dirty…and Rome is no exception. If you’ve spent time traveling around the city of Rome then no doubt you’ve been to the main sites – along with thousands of other tourists. You went to the Vatican […]
