Rome is old, like really old. The new parts are six hundred years old. The old parts are two thousand. That's kind of cool.
The momuments are all for the same things: the winners of the wars and the gods who helped them win. The losers get to be the slaves who build the monuments. Then the church took everything over and replaced the old gods with saints. I don't see too much difference.
There are few memorials to the losers, or to people who avoided wars and saved many lives. The Romans did a better job of anyone doing that. They had the Pax Romana that lasted a couple of hundred years. Then they began fighting among themselves. The new Italieans do that every couple of weeks.
The food makes it all worth it. Whatever the Romans and then the Italians did, they cooked well and now we have the vino and pasta to be thankful for.
Getting away is great. I hope everyone else is well.
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You mean there's people who don't go to Italy for the food? ;)
Glad you're having a great time.
i'm glad you had a good trip. have been to Italy once, but it didn't really count. i was working as a stewardess on a charter yacht and i hardly made it off the boat at all th entire time we were there.
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