TRAVELING ITALY

Well I finally figured out a way to send my blogging through to my husband and hopefully it will be posted okay on blogger.

We flew into Rome after a stopover in Amsterdam, no I did not partake of the legal drugs or legal prostitution. My sister rented a car in Rome and we drove up to Tuscany. The landscape reminds me of Tennessee, only sheep and pigs instead of cows and horses and strange trees. And of course the occasional crumbling fortress in the distance. And no roadside animals like rabbits or deer.

We spent two days in Florence, Here's a couple of pictures not shown when I visited before. Would like to have shot DAVID but they are relentless on watching to be sure no pictures are taken inside.
So...

Copy of David outside the museum.


A cathedral too large to fit in one picture.




Then we went to Assisi. Don't know if I could live there. Everything is at a 45 degree angle. Walking the streets are a killer. We started at St. Assisi the climbed up to the Temple of Minerva built during the time of Christ, now a Christian Church half way through town. Everything is covered in gold inside. And on each side of the altar remain the drains for the blood of human sacrifices 2000 years ago.

Coming to the City of Assisi looking up


The Church



The Temple


The Drain for blood sealed with concrete.


The altar.


The fortress at the top of the city. I was not up to making the walk upwards any further so this shot is as close as I got.


Assisi is a monastery with only men residing, so looking down from the city is a Cathedral or not being Catholic maybe called a nunnery, where there are only women.


And just a shot of the grade of the road in this city up up up or down down down.


Now, we are traveling to Rome, but have stopped at a nice rustic inn for the afternoon and night. With the aid of my sister's little AT&T plugin for satellite connection I'll try to blog and write a bit, hopefully. Thinking of you all, some a lot closer--just a country or two away and a Channel instead of an ocean.

Will try to drop another blog after we leave Rome for Capri.

Ciao.

Silence is Golden

My journal has been silent for a while had to make a quick trip with my sister to Florence. God...I love that city. Below are a few pictures of the 245 I took. Don'[t want to bore you. If it weren't for the gypsies the city would be perfect.

NEPTUNE'S PLAZA
THE FOUNTAIN

TO THE LEFT

STILL IN THE PLAZA--DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM NEPTUNE IS THE CHURCH MICHELANGELO AND DA VINCI ARE ENTOMBED.



AND IN THE OUTER COURTYARD--I FOUND FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S TOMB.

ALSO TO THE LEFT OF THE FOUNTAIN A MUSEUM AND THE CORRIDOR THAT LEADS TO THE RIVER.


WITH ITS FAMOUS BRIDGE WITH SHOPS SELLING GOLD & SILVER & JEWELS ON THE BRIDGE ITSELF.
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THERE IS SO MUCH MORE I'LL PUT IT IN PHOTO BUCKET AND MAKE SOME SLIDES--LATER. AM ANXIOUS TO CATCH UP ON ALL OF YOUR JOURNALS.