What beautiful and fascinating sights might you see if you wandered the chilly cobblestones of Rome in late December?
Take a peek…
1. Ruins preserved smack-dab in the center of a living metropolis. It’s heartbreaking if you think about it: Ancient Rome was the greatest civilization around, and yet it crumbled.
Today, in the middle of this thriving city, we still stare at the ancient kingdom’s rubble.
Doesn’t it give you an icy shiver, reminding you of our mortality?
Doesn’t it, oh English Literature buffs, [...Read More!]
Nine years ago, on this very bridge in Rome, I realized that a trip around the world would be possible as a woman traveling alone.
How? I was nineteen years old, it was eleven at night, and a psychotic Italian vagrant was trying to attack me on a bridge.
The summer after my Sophomore year in college was the first time I traveled abroad alone. I had searched the internet and found a fantastic job exchange in London through the Winant-Clayton [...Read More!]
I have just woken up in a drafty high-ceilinged room in Rome, surrounded by five fifteen year old Italian boys and one sweet college lad from Hong Kong named Himmy. Did you know that “Mixed Gender Hostel Dorm” actually means, “Lots-a Boys”?
The Italian fellows are gesturing wildly as they explain to us how they are traveling for ten days and will need loads of presents to make it up to their girlfriends.
“We buy many gifts on this trip, [...Read More!]
