I'm the only one who is well at the moment, the others all have colds and are in various stages of recovery. Today we all stayed pretty close to the centro.
Jules went to the Domus Romane di Palazzo Valentini in the afternoon and enjoyed it. From what he said the exhibition has been expanded since we visited last year and now includes an underground area near Trajan's Column. Palazzo Valentini is a multimedia museum - with images projected onto existing excavations. The excavations are still a work in progress.
When I first heard about Palazzo Valentini on Revealed Rome I thought that it could be either really good or naff. It was brilliant and I guess that is why you need to book to get in. The entry fee is now 11.50 euros if you book online and the Revealed Rome review is of what we saw, not with the addition of Trajan's Column.
Sarah wasn't well enough to go to the Vatican, neither was Paul :) Hopefully her flu will be a bit better tomorrow and she'll be able to go out. she needs to do some serious shoe shopping :)
We did some shoe shopping -at our favourite shoe shop in Rome, Altariva in Via Del Tritone, 31. They have good shoes which are good prices -you don't have to pay 1000s of euros for a pair of shoes. I love their boots and bought a few pairs last time -and a few more yesterday :)
The staff at Altariva are always extremely friendly and helpful and are very patient with our Italian. They are very good sales people but are also genuinely friendly. Last year while we were buying some shoes one customer tried on about 10 pairs of long boots - the shop assistant was very helpful and understood about getting just the right pair and was still extremely helpful and friendly. I can imagine the same scenario in Perth but it would be with a hassled customer and totally impatient, eye rolling, pacing salesperson.
The apartment that we are staying in is in a great location, around the corner from Piazza di Spagna, but is extremely noisy -no double glazing like the apartment in Venice, nowhere near as comfortable either. It isn't the best place to be staying when you're not well as it is hard to sleep. Home is going to seem so quiet after this.
It looks as though we left Venice at the right time, the aqua alta has been really high, about 1.5metres, that's 10cm higher than the highest when we were there. Many people were caught unawares as the prediction was for much lower water. At 1.5m, the barriers infront of shops etc would have kept out very little and it would be difficult to get around as wellies would be useless.
Photos from newspapers:
Venezia Today
Affaritaliani.it
Andkronos
It is so sad to see Venezia under water -each time the water subsides you can see where a bit more paint, mortar etc has washed away. Venice is slowly being returned to the sea.
Jules went to the Domus Romane di Palazzo Valentini in the afternoon and enjoyed it. From what he said the exhibition has been expanded since we visited last year and now includes an underground area near Trajan's Column. Palazzo Valentini is a multimedia museum - with images projected onto existing excavations. The excavations are still a work in progress.
When I first heard about Palazzo Valentini on Revealed Rome I thought that it could be either really good or naff. It was brilliant and I guess that is why you need to book to get in. The entry fee is now 11.50 euros if you book online and the Revealed Rome review is of what we saw, not with the addition of Trajan's Column.
Sarah wasn't well enough to go to the Vatican, neither was Paul :) Hopefully her flu will be a bit better tomorrow and she'll be able to go out. she needs to do some serious shoe shopping :)
We did some shoe shopping -at our favourite shoe shop in Rome, Altariva in Via Del Tritone, 31. They have good shoes which are good prices -you don't have to pay 1000s of euros for a pair of shoes. I love their boots and bought a few pairs last time -and a few more yesterday :)
The staff at Altariva are always extremely friendly and helpful and are very patient with our Italian. They are very good sales people but are also genuinely friendly. Last year while we were buying some shoes one customer tried on about 10 pairs of long boots - the shop assistant was very helpful and understood about getting just the right pair and was still extremely helpful and friendly. I can imagine the same scenario in Perth but it would be with a hassled customer and totally impatient, eye rolling, pacing salesperson.
The apartment that we are staying in is in a great location, around the corner from Piazza di Spagna, but is extremely noisy -no double glazing like the apartment in Venice, nowhere near as comfortable either. It isn't the best place to be staying when you're not well as it is hard to sleep. Home is going to seem so quiet after this.
It looks as though we left Venice at the right time, the aqua alta has been really high, about 1.5metres, that's 10cm higher than the highest when we were there. Many people were caught unawares as the prediction was for much lower water. At 1.5m, the barriers infront of shops etc would have kept out very little and it would be difficult to get around as wellies would be useless.
Photos from newspapers:
Venezia Today
Affaritaliani.it
Andkronos
It is so sad to see Venezia under water -each time the water subsides you can see where a bit more paint, mortar etc has washed away. Venice is slowly being returned to the sea.
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