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Yes, this year I will make it to Rome. I have a course on learning italian on my bookshelf. I think I'll give it another go. Roger On 6/24/08, Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Rome is just unbelievable, if you have never been there you cannot imagine > what it is. I am not drawing any water to any of my mills, as a matter of > fact you all know that I share very little with Italy and criticize it as > much as I can. But when I was some years ago in Rome for over a week with my > students, I was sort of mesmerized, especially when I had to visit the > Vatican. Just stunned. > Do try to get down there, Roger. I know that if you are able to find a room > by a convent (see the Orsoline nuns, or others), the price is quite > convenient. > > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > I want to go to Rome ... all that art. > > > > Roger > > > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Douglas Barbour > > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Oh yes, very, Anny. > > > > > > Loved Florence even more than Rome, but maybe the shops, as well as all > > the > > > museums helped <g>. > > > > > > As for poetry, too awed to even start, but I liked the concept that > > places > > > like Rome, let alone little Cortona, are themselves architectural > > > palimpsests, all kinds of history peeking through... > > > > > > And boy did we walk a lot, eyes wide at all we could see... > > > > > > (Hey, dont get me started...) > > > > > > Doug > > > On 20-Jun-08, at 8:56 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote: > > > > > >> You did travel through then, congratulations. It sounds a memorable > > trip! > > > > > > Douglas Barbour > > > [log in to unmask] > > > > > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > > > > > Latest books: > > > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > > > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > > > Wednesdays' > > > > > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > > > > > > A nation that expects to be ignorant and free, and in a state of > > > civilization, expects what never was and never will be. -- > > > Thomas Jefferson > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ > > "I began to warm and chill > > to objects and their fields" > > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds > > > > > > -- > Anny Ballardini > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome > http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing > star! > -- My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ "I began to warm and chill to objects and their fields" Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds