Visiting various fountains in Rome. These marvels of ancient craftsmanship (and modern maintenance to keep them functioning and in one piece) are quite amazing.If I’m not mistaken, Cleopatra’s needle is also featured in one of the fountains.

Here is an assortment of clips of me just randomly walking around Rome. I thought that it was interesting to see how people walked around everywhere, the people you see and what they’re doing, and how amazing antiquity is intermixed in everyday life.

except, perhaps, some of the Swiss guards.When I was there I remember commenting to someone about a solid gold cross encrusted with semi-precious stones while I was walking through one of the many display areas there. I said something like “I wonder how many people went hungry to put yet another cross in Rome.

After a couple days in Prague, I left for some solo travel.On the way from Prague to Rome via Munchen, a bunch of deutchers were harassing American girls by singing them german songs and getting drunk.

I’ve been digging around and found my home movies and found that I have a fair amount of DV video.Here’s the first day after a day or so of travel, I spent a day in Prague with my mother before we attended the wedding of some family that I do not see very frequently…. Prague was one of the few cities that was not devastated in world war two.I was going through a “talk like a muppet gameshow host” phase at the time, I think, based on my silly commentary.