Rome
If you ask a bit more of your travels than “Where is the Big Mac?”…if you want to truly absorb the local culture, the arts, the literature…(well of course we know you want the literature–that’s why you are here)…I have three sites to recommend to you. My Melange Robin Locker fell in love with Italy, [...]
Destination: Rome Movie: Angels and Demons Well, here we are at the end of Italy week. I went to the long-awaited movie of Angels and Demons around noon today. I would say it was the equivalent of dining on one of those fancy bakery cakes decorated with lard and sugar icing and fresh violets. Absolutely [...]
Destination: Rome Books: The Masters of Rome Series by Collen McCullough It seems to me that is essential to have some understanding of ancient Rome if you are going to travel to today’s Rome. All those piles of rock and bits of arches in the forum, with the magnificent hulk of the Coliseum watching over [...]
Destination: Rome Book: Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome by Angela K. Nickerson Number one on my Italian travel agenda: Rome. Number one in Rome: The Sistine Chapel. After a lifetime of seeing pictures of those outstretched index fingers, I wanted to see the rest. Not a bad [...]
