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[CatrionaGrace]

I clicked to read and once again have nothing interesting to add, but... rules.

 

[TIMOTIN]

Nothing to add also, but hey, I ate Filet-O-Fish!

 

[CatrionaGrace]

And lived to tell the tale?

 

[Naomasa298]

I sometimes click on this thread and don't post in it, because I'm edgy like that.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I clicked!

Would your rather spend a day sight-seeing at the Colosseum in Rome or spend the day at a luxurious spa?

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Colosseum, 7 days a week and twice on Sunday. Cross the road and stroll through the Forum and just imagine how it was 2000 years ago. If you're going to Rome, I challenge you to leave the Pantheon without being moved to wonder.

If you really must, you can dig a hole in your backyard, fill it with hot water, splash some mud around, and call it a spa.

 

[Louanne Learning]

We're starting to think about our Italy trip, one week in Tuscany, and 4 days in Rome. I said the only two things I want to see in Rome are the Vatican and the Colosseum, but my sister wants to go to a spa instead of the Colosseum (she's seen it).

It was somewhat of a compromise that we are even going to Rome, since my sister didn't really want to

yes, I would love to be transported by the history of the place

 

[DLC]

you can dig a hole in your backyard

No you can't, unless you dig all the way to China like Bugs Bunny. {insert 10000 words explaining the difference between holes and depressions}

 

[Rigor Mortis]

I went to Rome in February and just for 4 days as well. February was a good time to visit because the weather was gorgeous and tourists (and the attendant hawkers) a lot more sparse. No queue at the Vatican, for instance. There is so much to see, we were like a movie running in fast forward the whole time and I'd like to return and relax more alongside some of the highlights. Pantheon, chapel with Caravaggio's hanging, Trevi, Castel d'Angelo, Pieta, Forum, amongst so many others. The Collosseum was under restoration work so we only got partial access.

No you can't, unless you dig all the way to China like Bugs Bunny. {insert 10000 words explaining the difference between holes and depressions}

And if we dig a depression, then we can't really call it a luxurious spa, now can we? More a shabby spa that no-one will ever want to visit.

There was a radio show back before I was born (I think) where kids would tell their stories. Very entertaining. One kid told the host about a farm accident when a horse fell into a hole, broke a leg. Had to be shot, poor thing, to which the host asked if the horse was shot in the hole and the kid answered, "no, in the head."

Now that's a depression in the ground.

 

[DLC]

That kids my cosmic twin

 

[Rath Darkblade]

I'm debating between two novel ideas for when I get done with work. Both are solid. One is easier but probably limited while the other is much harder but has some serious home run potential if I don't screw it up. Should probably do the easier guy first to knock some rust off.

I started writing my WIP when I got back from Italy, 2.5 years ago and counting. But it's a real slog. :-\ It's solid, but getting into the mindset of my protagonist is very difficult.

While writing that, I had an idea for another novel, which sounds much easier, since it's set in antiquity instead of the middle ages (which is what I'm doing now). All of my earlier novels were set in antiquity, and they were all great fun.

I'm beginning to think that writing a novel set in the middle ages was a mistake.

Australian ministers/politicians, am I right?

While I am not really nostalgic of early to mid 2000's, I'm VERY nostalgic for the late 2000's to early 2010's World Wide Web; that's where I interacted with the global world, especially with YouTube. Thankfully, I didn't see any kind of messed up stuff while surfing through the web as a youngling, it is a blessing <3

Correct.

I'm kind of nostalgic for the World Wide Web of the early 90s. We all learned HTML from the ground up and created our own pages. There were no endless pictures of cats, no social media to mess everyone about, and no videos of everything about everything, dammit. It was all TEXT!

*sniff*

An' we LIKED it that way. ;-P

Colosseum, 7 days a week and twice on Sunday. Cross the road and stroll through the Forum and just imagine how it was 2000 years ago. If you're going to Rome, I challenge you to leave the Pantheon without being moved to wonder.

Been there, done that. And here's an impromptu poem about it:

I wandered through the Roman Forum, full of ghosts of yester-year.
I gazed up at the hole in Pantheon's roof, strained for old voices to hear.
I climbed Castel Sant'Angelo -- why Popes protected it, I had a hunch;
And then I thought: Gee, now I'm hungry. What are we to do for lunch?

We're starting to think about our Italy trip, one week in Tuscany, and 4 days in Rome. I said the only two things I want to see in Rome are the Vatican and the Colosseum, but my sister wants to go to a spa instead of the Colosseum (she's seen it).

I visited the Vatican, but wasn't impressed. The queue was very long, the rooms were badly lit, and some hawker tried to scam me afterwards. Pass.

I went to Rome in February and just for 4 days as well. February was a good time to visit because the weather was gorgeous and tourists (and the attendant hawkers) a lot more sparse. No queue at the Vatican, for instance. There is so much to see, we were like a movie running in fast forward the whole time and I'd like to return and relax more alongside some of the highlights. Pantheon, chapel with Caravaggio's hanging, Trevi, Castel d'Angelo, Pieta, Forum, amongst so many others.

I saw all those, but for me, the highlights were climbing the Spanish Steps and looking out over the city, and chilling at the Villa Borghese. There's so much to see at those gardens alone -- the Galleria Borghese is wonderful.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I am slightly less appalled by the idea of spending a day at a spa than I am at the idea of going to Rome, but if the spa is in Rome, and I have to go out in traffic and crowds anyway, I'd rather see the Colosseum.

Let us say that I am not a city girl.

 

[Set2Stun]

Travel talk once again makes me want to travel. I'm a big history dork, and being able to see structures like that in person would make me cream my pants. Going to the Colosseum has been a dream of mine. I'm getting the bulk of my severance in a lump sum around the end of January. The temptation is certainly there, but I could never risk it

Plus, I still gotta take care of Old Queen Mittens.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I always give in. We'll probably go to a spa - but it has to be a kind of spa that we can't find around here - something with outdoor hot springs, or something.

 

[TIMOTIN]

I sometimes click on this thread and don't post in it, because I'm edgy like that.

Me too dude!!!!!!!!

 

[Naomasa298]

I didn't post first.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Wanna bet?

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Plus, I still gotta take care of Old Queen Mittens.

All hail Her Magnificent Puissance, Old Queen Mittens!

 

[Louanne Learning]

The snow has started to come down .... I'm home alone tonight and doubt I'll stay up until midnight.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I'm beginning to think that writing a novel set in the middle ages was a mistake.

Maybe? I have a history degree and love the subject, but have never been a fan of historical fiction. I love fiction set in history or around historical events, but not any of the hard-core history where the author seems more intent on explaining history than telling a story.

Who's the guy who writes doorstop tomes? Mitchum, Mischner, Mitchell? Barf o rama.