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This statue is in Santa Maria in Trastevere. The hundreds of slips of paper are requests for saintly intervention. Note how the more enterprising supplicants avoided getting their requests lost in the mess at his feet and stuck Post-its on his cassock. Although I forgot to note the name of the saint, it Continue reading Please please me I always reckoned that if you were going to be a bum, there are worse places to choose than Rome. I took this photo in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere. The coat of arms of the city of Rome forms part of the fountain sculpture. The letters SPQR stand for Senatus Populusque Romanus Continue reading SPQR Someone once wrote that war was composed of long periods of utter boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. That pretty much sums up my trip north from Rome to Friesland. The moments of terror came when an overloaded and swaying lorry suddenly swung out in front of me to overtake another slow-moving Continue reading Last exit for Italy
Una mattina, mi sono alzatoO Roma ciao Roma ciao Roma ciao ciao ciaoUna mattina mi sono alzatoe ho trovato l’invasor I passed out around midnight and was only woken at eight by the movers banging on the door and the loud crashes of thunder. I flung open the shutters and was knocked back by Continue reading Ciao Roma ciao!
Honey, can youse take out the trash? I even sorted my crap: plastic with plastic, paper with paper, oozing sticky fluids with noxious defrosting fish. Three carloads up and down the drive and it was done. A little bit of Al Green, then I’m done too. Continue reading Yackety yak |
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