The Pantheon

Is there not a building in Rome that the Catholics haven’t turned into a church? On our last full day in Rome we visited the Pantheon. The front of the Pantheon, called a portico, has been copied relentlessly in the…


Is there not a building in Rome that the Catholics haven’t turned into a church? On our last full day in Rome we visited the Pantheon. The front of the Pantheon, called a portico, has been copied relentlessly in the…

**Disclaimer** This post is not intended to be a thorough guide on accommodations/transit of Rome. Its more of what we did, how we did it, and our observations of how things function. Transportation We did not fly into the Rome…

In planning this trip, we intentionally left a few free afternoons / days in order to accommodate spontaneity. In many cases we have spontaneously returned to our lovely terraced Airbnb’s for naps, snacks, and chilling. Yesterday, however, we decided to…

Today Devin and Linda went to Orvieto and I took the high speed rail line north to Bologna. These trips were not planned in advanced as we had left a free day in the schedule to either explore more of…