Olivia, I love reading your about your Italian days. It's truly like being there (um, sorta). I always sigh a little and remember how great it was to be in Europe for three weeks last fall... xoLynn
i remember sitting on the spanish steps with my brother, at night, in december, eating gelato. it was great, i thought, because it wasn't just tourists, but lots of locals, too. (or maybe they were italian tourists?) i'll have to remember the name of the square where we spent new year's eve with thousands of people and thousands of fireworks and thousands of bottles spraying champagne. i loved rome... i also remember thinking that i had never been anywhere else where so many people made out in in public - all the time - everywhere we went - even at the catacombs! i'm sorry you can't make out in rome, too.
if you walk through the villa borghese at about 10 pm on a saturday night, the teen makeout factor reaches soft-porn levels. i walked home through there one night and was almost blushing by the time i made it to piazza del popolo. be sure to get to the capitoline museum as well (and walk up the michelangelo stairs) and if you can find the church with "exstacy of st. theresa" in it, i highly recommend seeing it (me and my dad found it by accident!). the modern museum, despite decent stuff by cy twombly and mimmo rotella, is disappointing. i agree also that the spanish steps is curious enough to go beyond mere "touristy". so crowded there though...
i'm totally living vicariously through you, btw...
dan, im about to write an entry on the vatican museums, sistine chapel, Caravaggio's Deposition, etc. i totally thought of your catholicism. i dont know why. haha.
yeah, my catholicism came up in my brain there too... enjoying rome stands in relation to catholicism in the same way that enjoying las vegas stands in relation to capitalism.
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i'm totally living vicariously through you, btw...
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(how's that for guilty-white-liberal-speak???)
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