Travel day! And wow, what a day…. Pull up a chair for this one.
Up with the sun, pack, out the door to the train station and headed North for Ferrara, for a business meeting …
Then back on another train headed South, to Rome!
So I mentioned the Illy coffee plague and the Gucci shopping, but I didn’t mention that the shorts are white – white white – and yes, I managed to cover them with coffee while having a self-made lunch of cheese and salami and wine on the train. It was delicious but messy, and fear the shorts may be light brown ’till the end of days.
And so I am in Rome – nice AirBnB right near the Vatican – and so I go walking. Nothing and I mean nothing can prepare you for the size, scale, and sense of time that you get from the monuments in this city.
These structures are vast and timeless. Later a colleague would observe, in Rome you can Smell History. It is true.
Turn a corner and OMG there it is, the Colosseum. You know how sometimes when you see something in person that you recognize from pictures, it is disappointing? (Mt. Rushmore is like this.) Not the Colosseum; it is vaster and cooler than you imagined.
Picture lions eating people? Gladiators doing battle to the death? Wow.
Awesome. I could have walked around forever. (And yes, Rome is big, some objects are further than they appear…)
And so here I am, in Rome. Wow. How did I get here?
How did I get here 