We set out this day with very little planned and ended up all over the place seeing all kinds of wacky old crap. We learned that forums are like drugstores, there’s one on every corner… or at least what’s left of them, which isn’t much. You’d think at some point Read more
Day Eight was all trains and napping… possibly still more interesting than the job at which you’re likely reading this but still a bit of a stretch to make interesting on my end. We pick up our story with Day Nine. Today we saw the Pantheon, which was a weird Read more
First things first, it may or may not be called Il Duomo. I think the real name is much longer but I’m tired, so here we are. Please don’t tell my architecture professors. We went into The Duomo, to the top of its dome and through a museum about it Read more
We left Venice this morning after having spent the perfect amount of time (2.5 days) there, I think. Just enough for ample meandering and planned sight seeing. Any more and we’d just have been retracing our steps. Look kids, Big Ben, Parliament. It’s a two hour train ride from Venice Read more
It rained quite a bit this morning which makes the streets of Venice a very different place. Dry is better, for sure, but it was interesting to see the city under other conditions. Today we toured St. Mark’s Basilica and Doge’s Palace. The former didn’t allow photos inside, a rule Read more