Category Travel
Today’s Post Isn’t…
Isn’t what I am not sure. I had several ideas, and a few things almost ready to go, but didn’t make the time to finish them. But I didn’t want to leave you with nothing to read. Which got me to thinking. Jerry Seinfeld famously established one of the most successful shows in television history, […]
Vimy Ridge
It was 99 years ago today that Canada became a nation. At least that is one version of the narrative. Canada became a country on July 1, 1867. It severed legal ties, more or less, with the United Kingdom on December 11, 1931 with the passage of the Statute of Westminster. But military independence came […]
Circus Maximus
I missed it the first time I went looking for it. Which seems strange. How do you miss a facility that holds more than 100,000 people? Turns out it’s not hard when all that’s left is a grassy hill. With the passage of time Rome’s Circus Maximus is long gone. The stands where thousands […]
Pizza Time
The guidebook says this is the place. Not the birthplace of pizza, but where it was perfected. I guess you could call our visit to Naples a pilgrimage. Antica Pizzeria de la Michelle has moved from its original location, but that doesn’t matter. The recipe is the same, and after all, the move did take […]
Bumper Cars
When I was younger I enjoyed riding the bumper cars at amusement parks and fairs. You know the ones, heavily padded vehicles colliding into each other at slow speeds. It’s pretty much impossible to get injured. I never thought I would see them in real life. Naples was a stopover on our Italian sojourn, an […]
Colosseum II
It’s an iconic sight and no visitor to Rome should skip it. We call it the Colosseum, but its formal title is the Flavian Amphitheatre, taking its name from the three emperors during whose reign it was constructed. Completed in 80 A.D., a good chunk of the building still stands despite the ravages of time […]
Colosseum I – The Cross
This cross may have been the thing that moved me most when visiting Rome. I still get a little choked up thinking about what it signifies. The Roman Empire is long gone. Latin as a language is dead. Ironically, it was kept alive by the church for centuries, then abandoned with the move to the […]
Papal Audience
I’m sure they must have updated the system by now. It seemed so antiquated in 2009, it would seem even more so today. I figured since we were going to be in Rome we should take in a papal audience. Not a private one you understand, but the Wednesday public gathering in St. Peter’s Square. […]
Bric A Brac VI – Rome
They call Rome “The Eternal City.” While that may be overstating things a bit it is perhaps worth noting that I have more souvenir pieces of bric-a-brac from Rome that I rotate on my desk than from any other city. There is the snow globe of Pope John Paul II, who later this year will […]
Chocolate Overdose
When I was a child I had the impression that the best chocolate came from Switzerland. I’m not sure where this came from, marketing perhaps, it is true though that the Swiss make excellent chocolate. They are not alone of course. Canada has a few renowned chocolatiers, or at least they have a national reputation, […]
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