I'm going to Rome!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Oh yes, April 3rd I am flying out to the eternal city for a four day break. Where should I go, what should I do, who's jealous? :D

[Jacinda Blake]

who's jealous? :D

-raises hand-

Wow! That's awesome!

Your mission is to break into the Vatican and recover any pagan artifacts they have stashed away for safe keeping and bring them to me..... >D

[Vince]

Your mission is to break into the Vatican and recover any pagan artifacts they have stashed away for safe keeping and bring them to me.....

A common fallacy; the Vatican, as any good group of Christians, would have destroyed any pagan artifacts that they encountered.:shootinWouldn't want someone given a mission to infiltrate the place, past the crack Swiss Guards, and into the deepest bowels of the Vatican where booby traps and crocodile moats abound, along with pits with no bottoms, and all the other things whose main uses are to keep the trespassers out, would they?:angel

[Yog]

- Vatican City / Sistine Chapel / St Peter (climb the dome!)
- Colosseum
- Roman Forum / Palatine Hill
- Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps
- Piazza Navona (all the fountains!)
- The Pantheon
- The Catacombs
- Capitoline Museums

To name just a few.

The nice thing about Rome though, the entire city is like a giant museum. Just walking around and exploring can be an experience in itself. It is a beautiful city, and every street corner feels like it is two thousand years old.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I got a great guide book from my uncle. It has quite a few walking tour routes, which including stops off at most of the things you mentioned, Yog.

[Flux]

How dare you trump my awesome vacation destination!? Have fun.

[Figrin D'an]

You'll have to let me know if you find any less obvious unique or interesting places to see while you are there, Dasq. I'll be visiting Rome with my girlfriend at the end of May.

[Solani Naleen]

I'm jealous. I want to go to Rome.

[Aretsuya]

Rome sounds wonderful, and I am jealous. Tell us once you're there if it's as good as they all make it out to be!

[Adelaide Kasperian-Kazaar]

Im jealous of you both, too.

I'd be sooo excited.

[Nathanial K'cansce]

So very jealous. Have fun, enjoy it, and take pics!

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Wow - congrats and yeah, take a LOT of pictures! That's a place my hubby and I really want to go to, well, Italy anyway. And Greece. *daydreams*

You're going so soon! Was it spur of the moment, or we're just the last ones to know everything? :p

[Dasquian Belargic]

It's been in the works since my birthday. :)

Greece is one of my favorite places to visit, too. I haven't visited the mainland yet, but I've been to lots of the islands nearby.

[Locksmith]

I'd suggesting seeing if you can find the Mouth of Truth.

Oh, and have gelato. Lots and lots of gelato.

[Anita Stern]

I adore gelato. There's a gelato shop or two in my city. Scrumptious stuff.

[Mu Satach]

Have fun!
Yes, see if you can see the mouth of truth and re-enact the scene from Roman Holiday. :)

[stevenvdb]

This is a good time to go, before the weather gets too muggy. I made the mistake of going during the Summer, during an unusual heat spell, that i hear was record-setting.

But Gelato is good always...

[Crusader]

If you are intrested in art you should be checking out this church. The perspective roofpainting is incredible. The amount of work and time for calculating such a piece of art must have taken nearly forever at this period of time.


One masterpiece is Andrea Pozzo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Pozzo)'s trompe l'œil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe_l%27%C5%93il) fresco spanning the nave ceiling (1685)<sup id="_ref-0" class="reference">[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%27Ignazio#_note-0)</sup>. The lavish Baroque (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque) fresco of 17 m of diameter is devised to make an observer, standing on the spot marked by a golden disc set into the nave floor, will see a lofty vaulted cupola decorated by statues, while in fact the ceiling is hemi-cylindrical. Closer to the altar marks a second marker is ideal for viewing the false dome painted above the crossing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_%28architecture%29). It is said that the neighbors of Sant'Ignazio didn't want a rather large dome blocking their sun, and therefore a pictorial illusion was provided.

Sant'Ignazio di Loyola a Campo Marzio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant'Ignazio

[Carlos Calaveras]

I'm off :wave see you all next week.

[Wyl Staedtler]

:hug :wave

Have fun and please do not get embroiled in any international scandals and/or globe-crossing conspiracy adventures. :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

aaaand I'm back :) I had an incredible time, and will be showing off all of my incredible photos ASAP!

[Yog]

aaaand I'm back :) I had an incredible time, and will be showing off all of my incredible photos ASAP!

Congratulations! Besides photos, I'd like a detailed report what you saw / experienced :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

Oh, I'll write that to go along with the pictures, definitely. Right now, though, my brain is total mush... our original flight home got cancelled, so we ended up having to get up at 5am, to hop on a flight to London Gatwick, and then sit around in the terminal for another few hours before flying to Newcastle. :x

[Jacinda Blake]

aaaand I'm back :)

Oh thank the Gods... :glomp

[Morgan Evanar]

I'm so jealous! Post pics ^_^

[Mercure]

Yaaaaaay! :glomp

Glad you had fun chica :D