Rome 2004: Day Two

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Italy Picture by Barry Price
Travel story: Rome 2004: Day Two

I am exhausted.

It was an early start, with just time for a black coffee before the walk. And what a walk it was. Firstly, we visited the enormous cathedral of Mary di Magiorri. It was a breathtaking, brazen display of enough wealth to feed the poor of Italy to bursting point for several lifetimes, yet impressive all the same.

On to the Colosseum, Palatine hill, the Forum, and then the “Wedding Cake”, as Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II is apparently known - the... More