Travel: Catacombs of Rome
I woke up early this morning to catch a fast train back to Rome. It only took about 1.5 hours, and I didn’t want to waste my entire morning by sleeping in (although there’s no denying that I was very...
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My day started off fairly morbidly as it began by exploring a Capuchin Crypt beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini. When moving from an old monastery in 1631, the monks...
View ArticleTravel: Roman Art
After exploring the depths of Rome, I ventured onwards to Trajan’s Forum. This Fora was the last Imperial fora to be built, and was overseen by Apollodorus of Damascus. Built between 106 to 112 AD, it...
View ArticleTravel: Roman Ingenuity
I suppose I could have visited these vestiges of Roman Power earlier on during my stay in Rome, but those days were fraught with cloudy skies and doubtful rain. The scenery and the nobility of these...
View ArticleTravel: In the Steps of Michaelangelo
Before we could enter the Roman Ruins that day, my new friend and I stumbled upon the tail-end of a parade in celebration of some unknown national holiday. I’m still not clear on what it was, but I...
View ArticleTravel: Barbarians or Heroics?
Although my muscles were silently crying tears, I made my way onwards toward the Colosseum that silently towers in the background. However, I first attempted to give my bones a reprieve by pausing in...
View ArticleTravel: Bidding Addio to Rome
Italian is an artful and complex language, it tops my list of five languages that I want to gain fluency in, and it is with this prose that I bid Addio to Rome. It was a long and prolonged day for...
View ArticleTravel: Longest Travel day EVER (III)
Finally emerging from Bari Castle, I was absolutely starving! I dragged my bedraggled and tired body back on route to the port hoping to grab some food on the way. Unfortunately, being a smaller...
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