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Travel: Streets of Napoli
Right outside the San Lorenzo Maggiore is the Via San Gregorio Armeno a quaint street that has gained notoriety as the ‘Christmas Street.’ The shops lining this alley are overflowing with artistic...
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Travel: Vesuvius and Pompeii
Today, I finally achieved my goal of hiking along the side of an active volcano, and exploring a two-millennia old roman village. We will get to the emotions ignite later. Getting there was a...
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Travel: Capri
Since I had a flexible schedule due to eliminating a few of my planned cities along the original route, I decided to meet my friend (we became acquainted in Venice), on the gorgeous island of Capri....
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Travel: Catacombs of Rome
I woke up early this morning to catch a fast train back to Rome. It only took about 1.5 hours, and I didn’t want to waste my entire morning by sleeping in (although there’s no denying that I was very...
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Travel: Beneath the Streets of Rome
My day started off fairly morbidly as it began by exploring a Capuchin Crypt beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini. When moving from an old monastery in 1631, the monks...
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Travel: Roman Art
After exploring the depths of Rome, I ventured onwards to Trajan’s Forum. This Fora was the last Imperial fora to be built, and was overseen by Apollodorus of Damascus. Built between 106 to 112 AD, it...
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Travel: Legacy of St. Peter
So, I meant to wake up super early to line up for St. Peter’s Basilica in order to avoid the long lines. This turned out to be a useless endeavor, since my travels had worn down my energy stores. I...
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Travel: Roman Ingenuity
I suppose I could have visited these vestiges of Roman Power earlier on during my stay in Rome, but those days were fraught with cloudy skies and doubtful rain. The scenery and the nobility of these...
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Travel: In the Steps of Michaelangelo
Before we could enter the Roman Ruins that day, my new friend and I stumbled upon the tail-end of a parade in celebration of some unknown national holiday. I’m still not clear on what it was, but I...
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Travel: Barbarians or Heroics?
Although my muscles were silently crying tears, I made my way onwards toward the Colosseum that silently towers in the background. However, I first attempted to give my bones a reprieve by pausing in...
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Travel: Bidding Addio to Rome
Italian is an artful and complex language, it tops my list of five languages that I want to gain fluency in, and it is with this prose that I bid Addio to Rome. It was a long and prolonged day for...
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Travel: Longest Travel day EVER.
The last leg of my trip, I was excited to rendezvous with some good friends from home sweet home, New Jersey. Unfortunately I was meeting with them in Athens, Greece, and getting there from Italy is...
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Travel: Longest Travel day EVER (II)
Coming out of the Basilica di San Nicola, the gorgeous weather took a turn, and I decided to venture to my next destination as quickly as I could. Unfortunately, being an old port town, the street...
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