Rome, September 2006

Click here to see pictures from the June trip
 



 

Stained glass window detail, S. Maria d'Aracoeli


The lid came off a can of foot powder!


Pizza!

Italian girls keep getting in my pictures somehow

A policeman organises the traffic mayhem

The spirit of Michaelangelo lives on

The smallest car ever!

marble...

more marble...

... and even more marble

Watch out for this Pavarotti look-alike, as he will 
charge you €70 for salad and pasta for two!
Good pasta, mind.

A concert by Mr Hugh Jorgan

 


Trompe l'oeil

Sarcophagus detail

Villa Borghesi, home of the following beautiful sculpture...

Paolina Borghese
by
Canova

Apollo and Daphne
by
Bernini

 

David
by
Bernini

David
by
Bernini

The Rape of Proserpina
by 
Bernini

The Rape of Proserpina
by 
Bernini

(detail of Pluto's hands sinking into the flesh)

 


One of the many reasons to come to Italy

The sun comes out over the Vatican

A Vatican staircase

Raspberry cake for breakfast!

Piazza Navonna

 


My hotel room, before I flooded it with the shower. 
See City Guest House

Lunch!

San Pietro

 

In nomine Patris et fillii et Spiritus Sancti

Arriverderci from Roma
Spiritual Home of Tacky Religious Artefacts
(Hover mouse over image for a blessing from Pontius Plasticus Maximus in Aqua)