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  • ldent42ldent42 Posts: 7,859
    It's really pretty. And I saw a cat that looks like just my friends cat.

    My friends were visiting and set their (unreasonably expensive) camera down while in the shop and forgot about it. When they realized they went back and it was still there. The guy had found it and gave it to security.

    The museum is a special kind of fantastic. The sistine chapel really is something that you have to see to fully grasp. And the security is fantastic about shushing rude ass mother fuckers.
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  • PJfanwillneverleave1PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    ldent42 said:

    It's really pretty. And I saw a cat that looks like just my friends cat.

    My friends were visiting and set their (unreasonably expensive) camera down while in the shop and forgot about it. When they realized they went back and it was still there. The guy had found it and gave it to security.

    The museum is a special kind of fantastic. The sistine chapel really is something that you have to see to fully grasp. And the security is fantastic about shushing rude ass mother fuckers.

    Without a doubt there is some stunning architecture they build. I appreciate beautifully built churches when I travel.
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    ldent42 said:

    It's really pretty. And I saw a cat that looks like just my friends cat.

    My friends were visiting and set their (unreasonably expensive) camera down while in the shop and forgot about it. When they realized they went back and it was still there. The guy had found it and gave it to security.

    The museum is a special kind of fantastic. The sistine chapel really is something that you have to see to fully grasp. And the security is fantastic about shushing rude ass mother fuckers.

    I was lucky enough to see Michelangelo's David years ago in Florence.

    Overwhelming in the details, obvious love put into the intricacies of that body - so can't imagine what it must have been to behold the chapel...RIGHT THERE. All the effort, planning, time, pain, to create it. Hope to visit someday.

    And I just thought, Vatican City is kinda like Lichtenstein. Its own country within a country.

    (and even better, a country within a country that loves cats =) )
  • EnkiduEnkidu Posts: 2,996
    Seeing the Pieta in person was - it kind of blows your mind.

    A friend told me about this article yesterday and I started it last night. All about the politics in the Vatican. Interesting reading.

    http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/14/holy-orders-letter-from-the-vatican-alexander-stille
  • oftenreadingoftenreading Posts: 12,845
    I was in Rome a couple of years ago but we got robbed just as we were arriving on the train so I spent the afternoon on the phone dealing with cancelling cards and arranging for replacements while my family saw the Vatican. Always regret missing it....
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,038
    I spent 6 days alone in Rome in 1971. On the fourth day I went to The Vatican and it was closed for repairs or cleaning or some such nonsense. Some street vendor sold me a packet of slides of the Sistine Chapel for what turned out to be about the cost of a new Ferrari. But the trip was not a loss! I found a record shop where I fell in love with the pretty young woman behind the counter who sold me a Lucio Battisti record that I still have to this day. So yeah, fuck the Vatican. :lol:
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    I tossed a coin into the Trevi fountain when I was 23, and my wish came true.

    God I loved Rome. Its people, food (the food!), architecture, history, art.

    Lotsa handsome (and handsy) men, and gorgeous women too.
  • EnkiduEnkidu Posts: 2,996
    The food in Rome was amazing, even the little places. Real Roman pizza - so good. When we got back, my husband turned into a homemade pizza nut. Got a pizza stone, the whole thing.
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,038
    Enkidu said:

    The food in Rome was amazing, even the little places. Real Roman pizza - so good. When we got back, my husband turned into a homemade pizza nut. Got a pizza stone, the whole thing.

    Rommmmmmma!

    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
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  • eddieceddiec Posts: 3,881
    I got married in Rome. The day after the wedding the Pope was holding a special mass and if you were in St. Peters in a bridal dress and tux the Pope would come over to you and personally bless your new marriage. My wife was all for it and I had to promise we would go. But when the alarm went off at 8am to get going my wife couldn't handle the hangover and we went back to bed.
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