So we’re heading back to NYC tomorrow, back to the cold. Life at the Hotel Diplomatic has been pretty good, we’ve slept and ate more than anything.There is still only one fulltime English channel on TV, CNN International, which shows the same news in a loop every 15 minutes. Not that its annoying, or anything. [...]

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Not much to report for sights today, as it is laundry day. Tomorrow we’re taking the train to Venice for the weekend, so we’re tying up loose ends today. I figured it was as good a time as any to share some idiosynchracies of our week here. There was:

The guy in room 6 who saw [...]

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Tom, your faithful travel correspondant here. When we last left off, we were relaxing after the Vatican Museum. We were hoping to catch a movie, and noticed a theater in Piazza Cavour, nearby to the hotel. We headed over, but alas, no movies in English, or with English subtitles. And my Italian, is well, terrible. [...]

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Hello everyone-
Shay, Baby and I arrived at the airport in Rome around 8am local time Sunday. We got in a “shuttle bus” that looked a lot like some dude’s car, and drove to the hotel Ara Pacis very close to the center of Rome.
The plan was to get tickets to the local pro soccer game, [...]

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