Tag: Rome
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life
You will have to use your imagination to create a street life scene while exploring the ruins of the Roman port of Ostia, which was abandoned after the fall of Rome. Ciao! ~ Kat This post was in response to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge. ”Street Life” was this week’s theme. Everyone is welcome…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh
Frutta fresca! Can’t believe it has already been two years this week since we were exploring Rome’s historic streets. Ciao! ~ Kat This post was in response to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge. ”Fresh” was this week’s theme. Everyone is welcome to join in the Challenge; further details on how to participate and links to others’ responses are found here.
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The Vatican’s Papal Conclave: Hey, I Was There!
Reading the news reports about the recent conclave in the Vatican to elect the new pope, it was amazing to see the cardinals gathered in St. Peter’s for the pre-conclave mass before they entered the Sistine Chapel to begin their secret deliberations, and recall that we had stood in that sacred space the summer before last. St.…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
Hey, come closer! No, closer! That’s it, right up to the door. No, even closer. Yes, bend down and put your eye right up to the keyhole, as if you were looking through a telescope. Can you see what is beyond these imposing doors now? Amazing, isn’t it?! This is the view one sees when looking beyond…
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Important Life Lessons that Family Travel has Taught Me
Our family has been blessed with some wonderful travel memories over the years. Travel will be transitioning to college visit trips, with much of our travel budget over the next 6-8 years hanging on the hopes of good scholarship money! As the primary trip planner and organizer, not to mention chief photographer (let’s face it, often the only…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 