Midevening monday on the hostel
Midevening monday on the hostel bed
For reference purposes, a scheduled of the events narrated in these pages.
THURSDAY THE SIXTH
Evening: SAS 910 from Newark
Night: Flying - gin and tonic - Gosford Park
FRIDAY THE SEVENTH
Morning: Copenhagen airport - curious contents of movie shelves - international travel
Midmorning: Flight
Noon: Fiumicino airport - difficulties with telephones - creative use of a hat - trains
Late Afternoon: Baths of Diocletian
Evening: Roman churches - Santa Maria ad Martires - the concert - effects of sleepiness on the auditory sense.
SATURDAY THE EIGHTH
Morning: Toiletries- churches - piazze - beggars
Midmorning: Domus Aurea - archaeologist envy - the use of art
Noon: Return to hostel - an expensive shortcut - the Palatine Hill - encounter with a cat
Afternoon: Palatine Museum - effects of sculpture
Evning: Roman Forum - existence of history - Capitoline musem - closed - gay men of Italy
SUNDAY THE NINTH
Morning: Breakfast - the newly disocvered delights of jam - to Ostia - purchase of an audioguide
Midmorning: Ostia - exhortations to a camera - mosaics - duties of an archaologist
Noon: dehydration - death of an instrument - the reality of the past
Afternoon: Thoughts in a train
Sunday midafternoon: My dinner with a bimbo - lost card - the Colosseum
Sunday Evening: Meanderings - trevi fountain - nutella sundae
Sunday Midevening: The Young Set - encounter with a bartender - I make my escape
MONDAY
Morning: Transportation difficulties - the Pantheon - the fountains of Rome - I buy provisions at last
Monday noon: I eat my provisions - difficulties presented by a bottle of Chianti - sunstroke
Afternoon: the Vatican forgone - sleep and recover.
(I should preface this by saying what follows has nothing to do with this particular blog entry.)
I was just reading over the slew of entries you’d posted since I last checked the blogs, and couldn’t help turning to my sister and saying "You know, I can’t imagine not knowing Katherine. She’s absolutely delightful. I should figure some way for you to meet her. Katherine is one of those delightful people that everyone should meet."
June 10th, 2002 at 5:21 pm