Tricia's Travel Blog

Nathan and I both picked up colds on our way home from Rome, luckily I had brought cold meds along with me though, so we were able to get some relief from our cough and stuffy heads. My week was a busy one, as I had to prepare to move.  We had to be out of our current apartment on Sunday, moving into a hotel for a week before Nate can get into a different apartment for the remainder of his stay. One last beautiful sunrise from our apartment before we lose our nice view. Between packing to move, and washing laundry, I also worked on writing my blog from our Rome trip. Thursday was Thanksgiving, which we had originally planned on eating out, but because of our colds we decided to just eat at home. Instead of turkey (which I’ve never seen available over here) I made some chicken, mashed potatoes, and corn, along with a roll and some homemade apple pie with vanilla ice cream. Our Thanksgiving Dinner On Friday Nate’s cold was so bad that I convinced him to ju...

Monday was expected to be a rainy day so we planned on doing lots of indoor things. After breakfast we headed out to find that it had rained pretty hard over night, leaving lots of puddles behind, but it was nice for the time being.  Interesting to see layers of bricks, covered with rock and dirt that make up the roads in Rome. Our walk to the Pantheon brought us by some more ancient ruins, after reading the signs around the fenced area we discovered that these were the ruins of the buildings being used as the Senate back in 44 BC and the location where Julius Caesar was assassinated. There was probably around a dozen rats that were roaming around these ruins Building 1 is where Julius Caesar was assassinated I was excited to see the Pantheon as it’s probably the most amazing piece of Roman architecture still standing today. Built back in 126 AD by Emperor Hadrian, it had the largest dome in the world until 1436, and is still the largest unreinforce...