We are in Amsterdam! We have less than one day left. Tomorrow’s schedule: get up very very very early, take a train to Schiphol Airport, fly to Heathrow, wait at Heathrow for awhile, fly to JFK, wait at JFK for awhile, then fly back to SFO. Then spend the weekend relaxing/recovering before returning to work on Monday.
Meanwhile, here are photos from Rome! Rome is pretty intense. It’s huge, and packed with historical buildings, statues and monuments. And tourists. Apparently, November is the “off-season,” but you wouldn’t have been able to tell from the hoards of people.
But you can see why so many people visit. The historical pieces of the city are huge and magnificent, and there’s so much to learn and see and enjoy. Also, the food is amazing.
A sunset greeted us for our first night in the city:
This man also greeted us. He was quite angry:
The Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II:
View of the Roman Forum, Palatine Hill, and the Colosseum in the distance:
Statue in the square in front of the Piazza del Campidoglio:
The Colosseum:
From the square outside Vatican City (we didn’t go in, the line was way too long):
Old inscriptions in the foyer of the Santa Maria church in the Trastevere neighborhood. We committed a major crime and ate Chinese food here instead of Italian. We made up for it by eating gelato afterwards and then pizza at Dar Poeta the next day.
Inside the Colosseum:
Inside the Colosseum:
View of the Tiber River:
View of Palatine Hill from the outside:
View of the outside, from inside Palatine Hill:
More from the inside of the Palatine:
