Yesterday, the Lazy Day thing had backfired, but today, I did not even look at The Spreadsheet. Hey, the fact that I’m a recovering overplanner does not mean that I don’t have A Spreadsheet….I just don’t feel compelled to follow it (most of the time) to the dot. Besides, 95% of my ‘must do’ activities had … More Delivering on the Lazy Vacation Day Promise
It was supposed to be a lazy day. ‘We can relax and maybe go see a couple of churches not too far away’. Yup, that was what I said. So we had a leisurely breakfast, refilled our coffee mugs more than once and eventually rolled out the door in the general direction of the Colosseum. … More The Not-So-Lazy 3-Church Day
For not considering myself Catholic (not even a non-practicing one), I –and therefore C which was raised Protestant and is 100% non-religious- have been to a lot of sites which are very important to the faithful. But where the Church goes, magnificent art and architecture usually follow. And so do we… Well, I do, C usually … More Under, Inside, and All Around St. Peter
I was half asleep when the alarm went off. There are so many things wrong with this sentence! Alarms have no place within vacations. But, to be fair, the alarm was set for 8:00am. So it wasn’t exactly the crack of dawn. But it meant that we had to haul our butts out of bed … More Quirinale and the Quarreling Artists
We actually skipped breakfast at ‘home’ and were out and about before 10:00am. We were not really in a rush, we just wanted to save our appetite for the long awaited meal we would have for lunch. The sky was gray and it did not take long for the first few drops of misty … More The (Double) Sigh of Relief
On our fourth day in Rome the morning routine seems to be setting in: I wake, I type, he sleeps in, eventually we have breakfast, loiter around while getting ready, and head out. The overplanner in me is secretly horrified at all this wasted idle time. But I tell her firmly to hush and enjoy … More Two Things in One Day?
Having managed to sleep until the much more respectable hour of 7:00am, I was ready to tackle the day. But C wasn’t even stirring. So, once again I spent a couple of hours typing away… BUT this time I had plenty of coffee to drink so the day was already going much better than yesterday. … More The Easter Procession a.k.a. the ‘Off Season’ in Rome
I finally got sleepy around 7:00am and it was time to make one of those day-defining decisions: to sleep or not to sleep. I decided to woman-up and stay awake, otherwise I would sleep until noon and further delay the jetlag recovery process. I showered; I could hear C snoring. I unpacked my clothes in … More The Reconnaissance Walk
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