Category: Rome

• September 11, 2014
• Day 4
• Rome

Faith…

• Vatican Museum
• Crucifix by Henri Matisse, 1951

• September 11, 2015
• Day 4
• Rome

Cats…a good theme anytime, any place. This place…Vatican Museum.

• Thursday, September 10
• Day 3
• Rome

The Casa di Santa Brigida Convent bells toll inviting people to mass. Amusingly the striking of the bell is preceded by what sounds like the hee-haw of a donkey.   Just as amusingly my 3rd floor room is located beneath the bell tower.

• Bell tower taken from Abby’s roof top garden
• Bell tower above Abby’s chapel
• Abby on Pizza Farnese with imposing recycled Roman bathtub fountain

• September 8 & 9, 2015
• Day 1 & 2
• English Channel

The white cliffs of Dover wane as the jet heads east over the English Channel.

The illusive mystery is solved. My walking poles did not cause any arrousal from TSA and are tucked into my back pack stowed in the jet cabin over head bin.