Wish i was still there

[penance]

Just a quick piccy of last weeks excursion. Great week, cant wait to return.


piccy here

 

[Sir Galahad]

Neat, where is it ?

 

[lordsummit]

Rome. I love that city

 

[penance]

Yep, Trajans market in Rome, a 2000 year old shopping mall

one of the best cities i have visited, just didnt have enough time to see everything.

Missing the food aswell

 

[lordsummit]

I love Pizza, although you'd never know that to look at me

 

[penance]

Only had one pizza there. Had the best fillet steak tho.
Even food from the tourist snack vans was good!

 

[julian2002]

there's a big psy / goa festival in italy in august. i'm very tempted to go and make a 2 week stay of it and visit rome etc. depends on the availability of spondoolicks. penance,your pics only make me want to go even more.
cheers


julian

 

[penance]

Julian
I visited north Italy in August when i was younger, can be rather hot at that time!
But still worth it, a wonderful country indeed and friendly.

All in a got around 240 photo's

 

[penance]

Another of my dodgy focus pictures
the Colleseum.

http://www.penance.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/col.JPG

This place is immense and aww inspiring!

 

[amazingtrade]

It looks pretty impressive, I have never seen that side to Rome before, its one of the view major European cities I haven't managed to visit due to distance and cost. I'll have to visit it one day though.

 

[penance]

AT
All in it cost us under 350 quid for flights and hotel, we spent about 600 while there.
Surprisingly cheap for a capital city, eating out was cheaper and better than Bristol. Our last night out we splashed out, 3 course meal, bottle of decent wine, some liquers and coffee's it all came to 76euro (about 52 quid) so very reasonable.
The hotel was basic but very clean.
Getting in to some of the main monuments does cost, but still cheap at around 5euro a ticket. Most expensive was a ticket for the Colleseum, cost 10euro but also gives access to a museum and paletine hill (well worth a walk about)

 

[amazingtrade]

Sounds a lot cheaper than Paris then, we got charged 8 euros for a 0.5 litre of larger in 2002. It was the slowest drink of my life and the very thought of it made me feel sick. £600 is about what I spent in spain last year, I am not going away this year though becuase I need all my money for moving out, but certainly next year when I am earning I intend to go traveling round Europe for a couple of weeks so Rome will be on my list.

 

[penance]

Travelling around is something i fancy doing aswell, the western european trains are very good for that.
Ive already planned a mini tour of Italy -
Venice - Chiogio - Florence - Selema - Rome

 

[sideshowbob]

I'm here at the moment:

http://www.adweb.co.uk/ian/photography/japan/

Have to go back to Blighty on Saturday sadly.

-- Ian

 

[amazingtrade]

Travelling around is something i fancy doing aswell, the western european trains are very good for that.
Ive already planned a mini tour of Italy -
Venice - Chiogio - Florence - Selema - Rome

Yeah did it both in 2003 and 2004, in 2003 we got the train to Lodon, then a train to Paris, stayed there a few nights, got the train to Lille, stayed there for a night, then got the train to Amsterdam for a couple of nights then making our way back to Paris.

Last year we just went to Barcelona and Lloret Del Crap.

 

[penance]

Ian,
Great photo's and some very moving ones of Hiroshima.

Blighty was bad enough after a week away, best book some therapy mate

 

[Sir Galahad]

A
the Colleseum.

I would have recognized that one

 

[penance]

Tis a giveaway innit.
The scale is impossible to show with pictures, astounding engineering for its age.