Fitzy's Web Site: Travel

ROME
Italy

July 21st, 1999

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Welcome to Italy.

Here is part XIX of our European Holiday Flash Pages.
We've had to split Rome into 2 sections due to the amount of photo's.

Greetings & Salutations Groovers,, ;-)

Firstly, Hopefully this letter finds you and yours in the best of health, wealth and spirits. We really don't have much to say other than to let you know about the new look site.

As stated on the home page, the site looks very different from the previous effort but a lot of the features have been retained. We're also going to put back the full site that contains all the photo's we've put on the net. A lot of you e-mailed and said it was cool to view where pair if us have been and what progress we've attained on our house.

When things settle down a little more, we'll get on the "electric abacus" and let you all know what the "gee oh" is.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Stay Happy ;-)
Ruth & Fitzy

The most celebrated of all the roman fountains is the Fontana di Trevi, covering the complete side of a small square.	It was built by Nicola Salvi at the charge of Pope Clement XII, after a sketch by Bernini.
Literally tens of thousands of people a day visit the Trevi fountain. This shot was taken around 7 p.m. at night.	Many people (including us) mistook this building for the Pantheon.
Rules of being a pedestrian in Rome: See a gap in the traffic and run like the clappers!	Romans generally slow down only enough to maim and not kill you.
We think the saying "Fortune Favors The Brave" was coined by Italian drivers. Fitzy's driving style really fitted in with the Italians.	This is one of many squares lit up at night.
This is a little piazza behind the Victor Emanuel Monumenti on Piazza Venezia.	For some reason the Italians leave monuments unattended out in the open at night.
A night view of the Via Sacra in the Foro Romano	Construction remnants in the Roman Forum.
The impressive entrance to the Vatican. You are not allowed to take any photo's in the Vatican, so we don't have much for you.	This is the view from the top of the entry staircase on our way out of the Vatican.
Rubber necks on their way to add Lira to the Pontiff's coffers.	We left the Vatican around 11:30 and turned the corner into St. Peters square and found a heap of people looking at a small figure in the distance.
Upon closer inspection we found it to be Pope Paul II on his regular Wednesday morning mass that happens every month.	Here we are trying to get a photo together without someone running off with our camera.
This photo does not do justice to the size of St. Peters square. They can fit in over three hundred thousand standing people every Easter.	Fitzy out blessing wogs.
Schwaannnggg Yeah Baby!!!!	We've dined from Asian, Egyptian, Greek and European "cholera carts", today it was Italy's turn.
On one of the many bridges that ring the Vatican city.	After a while, fountains seemed to be breeding in Rome. Everywhere we went, there was a fountain.
Can someone please push the idiot in???	On of the monuments atop the Victor Emanuel Monumenti on Piazza Venezia.
A little pizza, a little pasta and a little vino. Lunch was great.	This is considered a compact car in Italy. It's barely six feet long and three feet wide. Compact, yeah right, more like pigmy.
Waiting for the shuttle bus on the steps of a local church.	Above the door of this church.....
..... was a really neat old fresco out in the elements.