Photo album for friends & family
These don't do justice to the trip! They're only a selection of some photographic successes. St. Peter's Rome is left out, for instance. It was certainly a very special element of the trip.
Monte Cassino... where St. Benedict founded his order. Destroyed several times over the centuries, most recently in bitter battle of WW II where Germans held up advance against overwhelmong odds.
Ah, la Dolce Vita! Pity about the hand and the jaundice, but what about my snazzy new shorts!
Venice, lower end of Grand Canal, from campanile in St Mark's Square
Florence, Duomo
On Sienna cathedral... included for Melody and Sarah
View East from my hotel bedroom in Sorrento... really! (To the north, just across Naples bay, was Mt Vesuvius)
Rome of the Caesars: Trajian's Column... sort of a Roman Bayeaux: There's a spiral bas relief up it depicting the general's campaigns
From a temple in the forum, Pompei
Isle of Capri
Pigeon feeding, St Mark's Square ........ A quiet corner of Venice
Sorry.. couldn't resist another shot at this one. Which is best??
View from San Gimignano
Pantheon, Rome. It has stood continuously for about 2000 years.
One of the 1000 rooms in the Vatican museum
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