GPOY feeling the beginnings of a pretty bad cold at the Baths of Caracalla
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It’s Saturday night in Rome, and it can only mean one thing
Thai food.
* Soooo this photo was actually taken last week at a Chinese restaurant. This will have to do, because I forgot to bring a camera to tonight’s dinner outing. I blame Tumblr.
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We spent most of this morning on the Via Appia. First stop was the tomb of Cecilia Metella, then Circus Maxentius, which is now just a vast expanse of barely-mowed grass, with some walls left behind. But just in case you didn’t think that was fun enough, we had to walk another mile or so in the hot Roman sun, through thistles and blind curves with crazy Roman drivers and garbage trucks and dead cats with ribs sticking out, to make it to this site, the sepulchre of Annia Regilla, Herodes Atticus’ wife whom he may or may not have had killed.
Then, caked in 5 layers of dirt and sunburnt, we went to a McDonald’s for lunch.
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Despite this picture, I kind of hated being at the Colosseum. It was hot, full of people, and really, except for the exhibit with the costumes, pretty boring.
On the plus side, in the interests of not getting any darker than I already have, I put sunscreen and a cap on, so that was one good decision today.
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It’s time for my sporadic photos from Italy of random things
A few days ago, we went to ‘Horace’s’ Villa (well, it could be, but we’re not sure, so the inverted commas are there). So naturally, I have a photo of me and a friend comparing notes on the latrines there.
We also went to Alba Fucens and we spent hours trying to identify the ruins. So here is me with my group, climbing back up the mountain, with my signature pose.
I got epic sunburn that day.
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One of my favorite parts of being in this summer session is that we’re allowed access to places not open to the public (like, say, the inside of the Temple of Hercules Victor, now free from bird crap!), and my second favorite is watching other tourists try to follow us into the temple, while the angry Italian lady in charge of the place kicks them out.
So anyway here is a photo of something that is not a penis. I’m still working on those hot Italian men photos, Six—we went to the beach yesterday, but it was mostly full of old men in Speedos because this is Europe—but so far, no dice.
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Phoenix - “If I Ever Feel Better”
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I completely support that church that wants to set fire to a big pile of Korans.
On one condition: they have to do it inside their church, with the entire membership present, and the doors locked.
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“Don’t you write a book about this, George Orwell!”
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