Who says time travel is impossible? Today we wandered, stumbled, searched and strolled through 3,000 years of history, from past to present.
Our first realization that 'time machines' are everywhere in Rome came when we wandered through an unremarkable doorway in a ruined brick facade off the Piazza della Republica and entered the surprisingly ornate and beautiful Santa Maria degli Angeli - the first of the many Catholic churches built on, in, or of, what had been a Roman temple.
Our all-day self-directed walking tour took us down the Via Nazionale, past Trajan's Column, Mussolini's grotesque yet beautiful Via del Fori Imperial, across the Tiber River at Ponte Fabricio and back again on the Ponte Palatino, along the Circus Massimo (think Ben Hurr chariot race...), all over the Palantine Hill and the Roman Forum, to the Arco Constantino and finally to the Colosseum, after which we boarded a metro train to retrun to the train station for dinner, a shower and, eight miles and twelve hours later - a welcoming bed.
Some photo highlights...
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