*swoon* Rome is amazing. Go to Rome. It's my most favourite place ever.
What we did on our first day there, which turned out to be good, was to look for the elephant. Or more precisely the elefantino - a sculpture by Bernini, of an elephant, with an obelisk on its back. It's pretty cool but the best bit is going through lots of other cool places on the way there. Going to the vatican is a bit of a lark because you get to see hundreds of nuns. We even saw some purple ones. There's also the bellybutton of the world (sadly inspection didn't turn up any fluff therein). And the cats. Mmmmmmm. The cats in the Torre Argentina, which is a section of ruins (ISTR it was where Julius Caesar was killed) which is set aside *just* for cats to live in. The cats everywhere else. The hundreds of crazy cat ladies. Ooops. I think I'm getting carried away. :)
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Date: 2002-11-19 02:47 am (UTC)What we did on our first day there, which turned out to be good, was to look for the elephant. Or more precisely the elefantino - a sculpture by Bernini, of an elephant, with an obelisk on its back. It's pretty cool but the best bit is going through lots of other cool places on the way there. Going to the vatican is a bit of a lark because you get to see hundreds of nuns. We even saw some purple ones. There's also the bellybutton of the world (sadly inspection didn't turn up any fluff therein). And the cats. Mmmmmmm. The cats in the Torre Argentina, which is a section of ruins (ISTR it was where Julius Caesar was killed) which is set aside *just* for cats to live in. The cats everywhere else. The hundreds of crazy cat ladies.
Ooops. I think I'm getting carried away. :)
*sigh* *feels romesick*