Well this should have been typed up at LEAST a few days ago… oops! So, Sorrento, home of the ferry to Capri, Limoncello, and of what maybe looks like a bigger tourist trap then Rome. Main things for that week:  Capri, Pompeii, and Herculanium (did I spell that right?). First, short words about Capri:  beautiful, […]

Well the past few days have been long and tiring, and thus, I have not blogged (I have tended to go back to our hotels and immediately crash). First—Siracusa. Our first day at Siracusa was very interesting. We started the afternoon off looking at a 4th century C.E. Villa with amazing mosaics! (again, no wifi, […]

So after going into Palermo, its definitely not as good as Rome, but it has its moments.  It’s the type of place I think needs to grow on somebody, if they are not used to it.  The city itself is actually pretty cool, but the walk there from our hotel was… shall we say… less […]

So we have thus far spent a week in Rome, and one full day in Palermo, and am currently watching Futurama in Italian in my Palermo Hotel, while typing this blog in Microsoft Word, due to me not wanting to pay the €3 an HOUR (yes, hour) for internet.  Before I go into the city […]

So I went two weeks without internet, until getting back to Rome.  While I have been trying to keep up with blog posts on Word, I obviously could not upload them to the internet.  I’m going upload them all now, and write some new ones.  Since I’ve been back in Rome, its been crazy, which […]

(Religion is a touchy topic, so if you’re sensative, you may want to either skip certain parts of this, take it with a grain of salt, or just flat out not read it.  Anyone who dares to critize my opinons in an unintelligent manner will regret it.  Certainty, confusion, annoyance, analysis, intimidation– They are all a […]

To finish up my last post (its late… I know… I blame lack of wireless! (That’s right, I still don’t have it…)), we have Trajans Pillar and Hadrians tomb left to discuss. Trajan’s Pillar.  Well, its a pillar.  A giant pillar.  But this is no ordinary pillar.  This work of art depicts the Roman conquest […]

I never noticed how many emperors names ended in “ian”… Domitian… Lot of ians, but also “ius”s… Augustus, Tiberius, Titus, Antoninus, Marcus Aurulius, Commodus, Severus… Very funny to me, but maybe that’s because its late at night and I just never recognized it before (for some reason hahaha). Anyways, I stuck with the “ians” because […]

So I’ve been in Roma for a few days now, and I must say this:  I approve of the pizza and gelato.  There are more types of each then I ever though of.  The fig gelato I had today: PHENOMONAL!  Also, the actually figs I had today:  Best I’ve ever had! (Today was a fig day […]

Well, it is currently 10:39 on a Wednesday night, and 96 hours from now I will be most likely napping over the Atlantic.  It is kind of weird that this is so close.  It reminds me of how we all say “it would be awesome to do this” or “I wish I could do that,” […]