Ciao Mickey, This is NOT Disney. The real Europe visited...8/16 - Day 9.11 & 9.12

[PrincessInOz]

Such amazing artefacts. Shame a lot of it was behind locked gates!

 

[jenseib]

It's just beautiful and amazing all at the same time
Have a fabulous trip!!!

 

[KatMark]

Great updates, Scott. I love it all.

I hope you are having fun in Florida, and good luck finding a new home.

 

[pas130]

^^^^What Kathy said

 

[scottny]

Such amazing artefacts. Shame a lot of it was behind locked gates!

yes they are. Unfortunately they have to be with the idiots of the world today. Just this week I read someone crashed a hercules statue in Italy because they climbed up on it and it fell and broke. So sad.

It's just beautiful and amazing all at the same time
Have a fabulous trip!!!

it really was.
Thanks. It was good.

Great updates, Scott. I love it all.

I hope you are having fun in Florida, and good luck finding a new home.

Thank you.
Thanks and it was great running into you for a quick minute at Kona.

^^^^What Kathy said

Copycat. LOl

 

[scottny]

Life Update:
We got back 2 days ago from our trip. For those friends with me on Facebook you already know but I got sick on the trip. The first half was good looking at rentals and going to Disney and then around Friday night or Saturday I started feeling not so great. Sunday i took a bath and when I got out I jumped in the shower to rinse off and I got so nauseated and dizzy I had to yell for Vinny to help me. I dried off and dressed and crashed on the bed around 4 or 5pm. Next think I knew it was 10pm. I was coughing and hacking and burning up and freezing.
Next day I felt a little better but not great so we went to Centra Care in Lake Buena Vista and it turns out I have an upper respiratory infection. They gave me a z-pac for 5 days and something else and am now healing.
on the rental front we did find a couple we liked and it looks like we will be living in Windermere about 10-15 minutes north of Disney.
So that is where we are right now. The Disney part was fun but very short. Trying to decide if I should post the pics here or in a new report. Mostly scenery and food. LOL. Thoughts? Also I did not take my camera with me as I thought we would be in the parks only at night but I tried using my phone and hated it so I went to Best Buy and bought a Samsung point & shoot, it wasn't bad but not good in low lighting.

Day 8.8

I was mistaken when I said some sat down below in the last update, this is where some sat down below. We had to go up another level.

Makes you just want to scream HELLLLLLOOOOO.

Looking up.

Then we headed outside.

The Arch of Constantine. http://www.aviewoncities.com/rome/constantinearch.htm

Here is an unzoomed look.

Looking around at the different ruins.

This seems wrong.

Would you like to see the arena from up here?

I took a selfie up here.

Then I went to look out of the Coliseum again.

More ruins.

Does that look familiar from a few updates ago?

Then I looked around the Coliseum again.

Then I looked out again. There were many photos in between but they were the bottom of the coliseum again.

Saw these.

The gate where we entered earlier and the guy proposed.
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Then it was back down the stairs we went.

What did Lorraine hear in her ear. LOL. Nothing.

And with that I will stop.

Up next,

We leave the Coliseum and then people leave us.

 

[scottny]

My pics look huge. LOL

 

[PrincessInOz]

Your pics ARE huge! Monumental, in fact.
Love the Coliseum.


Hope you're feeling better. Sorry you got sick at WDW.

 

[pas130]

Sorry you were sick on your trip Scott. I vote for pics anytime LOL. The coliseum selfie...great! Standing on top of it all

 

[hill6]

Hope you feel better soon

 

[MEK]

I hope you are fully recovered now! Glad you were able to zero in on where you want to live, but sorry the Disney portion of your trip had to succumb to illness. But since you are going to live there I am sure you'll more than make up for it!

Love your pictures of the coliseum. They are seriously amazing. You really did a great job capturing the different perspectives and such an noteworthy landmark.

And you went to Florida without your camera? What were you thinking??????

 

[scottny]

Your pics ARE huge! Monumental, in fact.
Love the Coliseum.


Hope you're feeling better. Sorry you got sick at WDW.

Thanks. The size went up. Must have git something.
I am starting to feel better, just need to clear the throat out.

Sorry you were sick on your trip Scott. I vote for pics anytime LOL. The coliseum selfie...great! Standing on top of it all

Thanks.

Hope you feel better soon

Thanks, almost there.

I hope you are fully recovered now! Glad you were able to zero in on where you want to live, but sorry the Disney portion of your trip had to succumb to illness. But since you are going to live there I am sure you'll more than make up for it!

Love your pictures of the coliseum. They are seriously amazing. You really did a great job capturing the different perspectives and such an noteworthy landmark.

And you went to Florida without your camera? What were you thinking??????

Not fully but just about.
That is how I feel too so I wasn't so bummed about it.
Thank you.
I did. and never again. I did buy one so it helped but not on dark rides. LOL. I was thinking we would mostly be looking at homes and the little bit we did Disney I could use my phone. NEVER AGAIN!.

 

[scottny]

Day 8.9

We were slowly heading out now and we still had another part of the tour to go to.

Anyone need a new table? LOL.

Lets look back.

Arch of Constantine.

Love all the trees.

This is also when everyone decided they were done with the tour because it was hot. I don’t recall it being overly hot. So it was me and Vinny left. That will continue in the next update.

Up next,

Ruins

P.S. - I am starting a new TR for this past trip. This one has the pre tr for September already so don't want to overflood it.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Loved all your pictures of the Coliseum. Looking forward to the next edition.

I assume you'll post a link or leave breadcrumbs for us to head to the new TR.

 

[scottny]

Loved all your pictures of the Coliseum. Looking forward to the next edition.

I assume you'll post a link or leave breadcrumbs for us to head to the new TR.

Thanks.
I will post a link.

 

[scottny]

NEW TR STARTED. Click link below.

Scott & Biff are moving to Disney, a new TR...

 

[franandaj]

Oh my gosh! I can't believe how far behind I got, and now you've started a new one!

I was back in Florence! That train you took to Rome, did they all look all sleek and modern like that? The Italian countryside is just beautiful! They look like cows to me! LOL! That's funny I thought I was the only one having a hard time with the light pink font color and then everyone else was commenting on it too!

That elevator in the hotel in Roma is like the old elevator that they used to have in Club 33! That shower looks heavenly! The Piazza Venezia is very impressive! The Roman Colluseum! Too bad it was all covered in scaffolding when you were there. I liked in the one sign that they had a disabled route. Good to know! When I visited we just went to the top level. I would have been a little freaked out on that bottom level with all that went on down there!

I hope you enjoyed your trip to Florida. I was reading your posts on Facebook, I'm glad that everything got resolved and got over your illness. Z-paks work miracles. We always keep one in our medicine chest because when you need one, the last thing you want to do it go out and pick it up at the pharmacy.

Heading over to the new TR now!

 

[Lesprivate]

Beautiful as I have said before, someday I will get to Italy. Glad you are feeling better.

 

[scottny]

Oh my gosh! I can't believe how far behind I got, and now you've started a new one!

I was back in Florence! That train you took to Rome, did they all look all sleek and modern like that? The Italian countryside is just beautiful! They look like cows to me! LOL! That's funny I thought I was the only one having a hard time with the light pink font color and then everyone else was commenting on it too!

That elevator in the hotel in Roma is like the old elevator that they used to have in Club 33! That shower looks heavenly! The Piazza Venezia is very impressive! The Roman Colluseum! Too bad it was all covered in scaffolding when you were there. I liked in the one sign that they had a disabled route. Good to know! When I visited we just went to the top level. I would have been a little freaked out on that bottom level with all that went on down there!

I hope you enjoyed your trip to Florida. I was reading your posts on Facebook, I'm glad that everything got resolved and got over your illness. Z-paks work miracles. We always keep one in our medicine chest because when you need one, the last thing you want to do it go out and pick it up at the pharmacy.

Heading over to the new TR now!

I think they will both go slow. I have to catch up this weekend on everyone's tr's.
The trains did all look alike.
yeah that color is not allowed anymore.
I didn't really think about what happened down there being I was taking pics.
it did go well. Trying to convince Vinny to go back now and look at more places but he says no.

Beautiful as I have said before, someday I will get to Italy. Glad you are feeling better.

You definitely should. Thanks

 

[scottny]

Day 8.10

With the others gone we were then on our way. We were told to watch our wallets and stuff as we waited to enter because the children there were trained to pickpocket you. That is just sad.
Let’s go in.

There was a restroom here and I think everyone used it. LOL. Then I waited on the side for Vinny.

Staircase.

This was the staircase we went up.

Kind of looking back at where we were. That is actually the top of the first staircase.

Then looking to the left side of me.

Looking up ahead of us.

We had to go up another staircase and soon we were up where needed to be. The sun was BRIGHT.

There was a water fountain here and I think most people filled up their bottles.

I love trees.

I see you all the way down there.

Bird attack. LOL.

Then we started to move along and see what we paid to see.

Relaxing a bit. LOL.

Sorry for no descriptions of things in the above photos but I honestly don’t remember.

Time to stop here.

Up next,

More of the tour.