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April 15, 2010 — Across from Herod’s gate in Jerusalem
April 15, 2010: Across from Herod’s Gate Wall of the Old City of Jerusalem, on Sultan Suleiman Street not far from the Rivoli Hotel. At 3:45 a.m. today in Athens we met up with a band of pigeons foraging along Ermou … Continue reading
April 23, 2010 — Fishing boats and ferries — Poros
April 23, 2010: Poros — Fishing boats and ferries Poros harbor. Six-thirty in the morning was half-light in Athens, with the Acropolis set against Homer’s “rosy-fingered dawn.” A few birds were awake enough to sing, but none of the people on the … Continue reading
Posted in 2010, travel
Tagged Apollon Hellas, Athens, Carbon Golden Flour, ferries, Fishing boats, Mediterranean, Piraeus, Poros
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Sicilian wheat, a smattering of tastes
The Sicilian flag shows Medusa’s head, with ears of wheat alternating with the three legs that some say represent the three corners of Sicily. One source says that the Gorgons (Medusa was one of three) represented the destructive aspect of Athena. Perseus … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Sicily, travel
Tagged cannoli, Catania, Hotel Trieste, Ortygia, sfinciuni, Sicily, Vineria di Picasso, wheat
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Sicilian impressions — Catania Market
The morning crowd at the Catania Fish Market. The group in the lower right is buying herring (or mackerel?) from a fisherman who has just brought them in from his boat. He’s pulling out handfuls, weighing them, and taking … Continue reading
Roman Holiday, September 14, 2013
If you were a Roman in the old days, you would not go to Ostia on a holiday. These days, you might, just to look at what was left of a bustling Roman community. We went to Ostia (means “mouth,” and is located where … Continue reading
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Tagged Capuchin Ossuary, Il Foccacia, Ostia, Piazza Navona, ruins, Tiber, Trevi Fountain
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Rome, the Eternal City, September 13, 2013
Bernini’s altarpiece, and his “Dove” alabaster window in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Guess the eternal city is a good description for the day, because we spent a sizable chunk of it seeing the Vatican Museums and St. Peter’s Basilica. The … Continue reading
Veni, Vidi, Vici, Rome, September 21, 2013
View from the Aventine Hill, with St. Peter’s dome, and the Tiber in the foreground. Or, as Regina says, “We came, we saw, we ate gelato.” Our last day in Rome was sunny, hot, and involved some thirteen miles of … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Grottiino, Aventine Hill, Cosmati marble inlay, Inca Cola, Knights of Malta, Piazza di Mattei, Santa Maria de Cosmedin, Santa Maria di Maggiore, Smurf, St. Alessio's, St. Sabrina's, St. Valentin, Taste of Trastevere, Teatro di Marcello, turtle fountain
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Sicily to Rome, September 20, 2013
At 8:15 this morning, we said good-bye to Tom and Peg, who are on their way to see Tom’s cousins and relatives in Termini-Imerse near Palermo, and to Guiseppe at Hotel Trieste. Aetna was steaming as we passed her on … Continue reading
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Tagged Aetna, Campo di Fiori, Catania, Circus Maximus, fishing, gelato, obelisk, Piazza San Croce in Gerusalmme, Sicily, St. John Lateran, Termini-Imerse, Tiber
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