Travels WithJohn and Janice

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Every trip we've shared since 2011—filter by where we went, when we traveled, or what we explored.

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The Colosseum in RomeItaly
6 min read2016

Dateline June 11, 2016, Rome

Rome was the grand finish to our weeks of Italy by rail. We threw our coins in the freshly cleaned Trevi Fountain, stood before Michelangelo's Pieta and under the Sistine ceiling, walked the Forum and Palatine Hill, and looked down into the tunnels beneath the Colosseum floor. We caught a bishop's service by luck at the oldest church in Rome, paid our respects to Raphael in the Pantheon, and went back twice to a tiny family restaurant we loved. Then, in the morning, on to Athens.

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Michelangelo's David in the AccademiaItaly
5 min read2016

Dateline June 3, 2016, Florence

Florence was the heart of our Italy, with the local wine flowing at six dollars a half-liter. Our hosts met us with a map and a bottle of red, and from there we walked it all: the great Duomo and Brunelleschi's dome, the Piazza della Signoria with its turtle searching for Utopia, the Uffizi and its two da Vincis, and the Ponte Vecchio with its centuries of shops. But the moment we will never forget was standing in front of Michelangelo's David, far larger and finer than we had ever imagined.

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