Rome, Italy

Bridget and I finished off our travels together in Rome, where I also met up with the lovely Amelia (living in Rome for the summer) and fabulous Susanna (who flew to Rome just to see me! And, um, I guess Rome too).

We all traipsed around Rome and got into loads and loads of trouble. But instead of boring you with the details, here are some pictures.

The Coloseum was very impressive:

Bridget, who left after only two days, had a whirlwind tour of all of Rome one simply has to see. Here she is in front of one of the two best preserved small temples in Rome (like most temples that survived, this one was converted into a church).

The temple of Hercules (maybe):

Me and the Trevi fountian, which is extremely gaudy but still somehow very pleasant:

One of my favorite sights was the Pantheon, which is truly awe inspiring. The view of the dome from the inside is almost overwhelming. I also learned the answer to the age-old question: what do you do when it rains, and your dome has a 9 meter oculus? Then answer, fairly predictably is: lots of holes in the floor.

The oculous of the Pantheon, and all of us admiring the system of drainage.

And here's a picture of all of us, on the last night that all of us were still in town. Amelia organized dinner at a fabulous restaurant in Trastevere

(The meal was delicious, but I didn't realize that the restaurant was so very red until I saw this picture)