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kolvinMore Rome pictures. If you're sick of my trip pictures you might wanna avoid the rest of this. As usual the standard warnings apply: big pictures, commentary of a dubious nature, and movies!
At this point I think I was on my third day in Rome. In the evening before I met a new friend, called Royan. She's from BC originally but she was living in London UK for a couple of years. We decided to go to the Vatican together. Good thing too since doing the Vatican alone would have been tedious and boring.
First thing in the morning we went and stood in line. See there's about an hour's wait before you can actually enter the Vatican. During the wait you are "entertained" by gypsies trying to part you from your meney by showing you their bleeding scalps, sellling you scarves, or other knick knacks. The "bleeding scalp" thing was by far one of the more troubling encounters with the Romany I've ever had.
Here's the bloody line (may or may not contain actual blood):
I'm still waiting:
You're lucky I didn't take any bleeding scalp pictures. I think me and Ro where just too shocked.
At last we got in. Did the whole security thing. X-Ray and whatnot. My Swiss army knife wasn't deemed much of a threat to the pope so I was let in. We got through the lobby for the Vatican museum and from where we where we could see this:
Also the interior courtyard:
The Papal gardens are a lot bigger than this and you need an appointment to tour them but I didn't bother. How interesting can plants be? (Actually the gardens must be really nice since a lot of people that can't have sex with each other tend them so I figure they work on the garden a LOT).
I saw this. Which differed from a postcard Ro had which included peacock statury on the railing. Notice how there ARE NO PEACOCKS on the railing. Remember this. It's important and you'll be tested later. Anyways we had a long rant on how your whole visit was ruined by the lack of peacock statuary.
We saw some famous statuary:
Some less famous statuary:`
Most of it about naked men. Some of them with BIG sticks!
Although most of them weren't so endowed.
They also had a really interesting Egyptian portion of the museum. With MUMMIES!:
And sarcophagies!
And statues!
And the fucking PEACOCKS!!!
See? Told you they were important!
The Vatican museum also had nice ceilings:
A very darkly lit modern art section:
With well known paintings:
And Bacon!
After seeing the museum (BTW you are getting the abridged tour. We were walking for hours before we got to this point) we went up to the cuppola. Let me mention that they have a written warning about going up there if you're out of shape. They say YOU WILL DIE!
Up the stairs we went:
The first stop which is inside St Peter's cathedral's dome:
The second stop, which is quite a bit above that is on the dome's exterior and you get to see this:
Now in descriptive video and including an appearance by Ro!:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v440/Kolvin/?action=view¤t=rome2109.flv
We went down the stairs. Not for the claustrophobic:
To St-Peter's which I did not photograph much on that day since I intended to go back later and we were fucking exhausted:
BTW I swore a lot in God's house. Ro said I was a bad man. :-P
Saw Michealangelo's Pieta (Behind bulletproof glass because of some asshole):
A couple of Papal guards with snazzy threads:`
Got out of the Vatican and we saw some fortress, whose name excapes me for now:
Some statury with a cool organic hat *SQUAWK*:
And a nifty castle:
And that's it for that particular day!
If you're not sick of movies here's another pan from the top:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v440/Kolvin/?action=view¤t=rome2110.flv
At this point I think I was on my third day in Rome. In the evening before I met a new friend, called Royan. She's from BC originally but she was living in London UK for a couple of years. We decided to go to the Vatican together. Good thing too since doing the Vatican alone would have been tedious and boring.
First thing in the morning we went and stood in line. See there's about an hour's wait before you can actually enter the Vatican. During the wait you are "entertained" by gypsies trying to part you from your meney by showing you their bleeding scalps, sellling you scarves, or other knick knacks. The "bleeding scalp" thing was by far one of the more troubling encounters with the Romany I've ever had.
Here's the bloody line (may or may not contain actual blood):
I'm still waiting:
You're lucky I didn't take any bleeding scalp pictures. I think me and Ro where just too shocked.
At last we got in. Did the whole security thing. X-Ray and whatnot. My Swiss army knife wasn't deemed much of a threat to the pope so I was let in. We got through the lobby for the Vatican museum and from where we where we could see this:
Also the interior courtyard:
The Papal gardens are a lot bigger than this and you need an appointment to tour them but I didn't bother. How interesting can plants be? (Actually the gardens must be really nice since a lot of people that can't have sex with each other tend them so I figure they work on the garden a LOT).
I saw this. Which differed from a postcard Ro had which included peacock statury on the railing. Notice how there ARE NO PEACOCKS on the railing. Remember this. It's important and you'll be tested later. Anyways we had a long rant on how your whole visit was ruined by the lack of peacock statuary.
We saw some famous statuary:
Some less famous statuary:`
Most of it about naked men. Some of them with BIG sticks!
Although most of them weren't so endowed.
They also had a really interesting Egyptian portion of the museum. With MUMMIES!:
And sarcophagies!
And statues!
And the fucking PEACOCKS!!!
See? Told you they were important!
The Vatican museum also had nice ceilings:
A very darkly lit modern art section:
With well known paintings:
And Bacon!
After seeing the museum (BTW you are getting the abridged tour. We were walking for hours before we got to this point) we went up to the cuppola. Let me mention that they have a written warning about going up there if you're out of shape. They say YOU WILL DIE!
Up the stairs we went:
The first stop which is inside St Peter's cathedral's dome:
The second stop, which is quite a bit above that is on the dome's exterior and you get to see this:
Now in descriptive video and including an appearance by Ro!:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v440/Kolvin/?action=view¤t=rome2109.flv
We went down the stairs. Not for the claustrophobic:
To St-Peter's which I did not photograph much on that day since I intended to go back later and we were fucking exhausted:
BTW I swore a lot in God's house. Ro said I was a bad man. :-P
Saw Michealangelo's Pieta (Behind bulletproof glass because of some asshole):
A couple of Papal guards with snazzy threads:`
Got out of the Vatican and we saw some fortress, whose name excapes me for now:
Some statury with a cool organic hat *SQUAWK*:
And a nifty castle:
And that's it for that particular day!
If you're not sick of movies here's another pan from the top:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v440/Kolvin/?action=view¤t=rome2110.flv
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Date: 2006-11-08 08:58 am (UTC)hehehehhehe... i misread into this:
BTW I swore a lot in God's house. Ro said I was a bald man. :-P
J'ai trouvé que c'était tellement gratuit que ça en devenait qu'hilarant. Puis je me suis rendu compte que je sais pas lire. Mais bon, je sais rire.
Désolé de mon retard, problème d'accès Internet ces temps-ci, je gardais tes longs posts pour quand ca se réglerait. Puis comme ca se règle pas, je t'ai réservé du temps juste pour toi :)