Summer Holiday in Italy, September 2004

Starting in Rome

First afternoon - Carla in the Piazza della Repubblica by the Fountain of the Naiads	The Moses Fountain, or Fontana dell'Acqua Felice, in Piazza San Bernardo	Rome by night from the Villa Borghese gardens (we got engaged here a few days later)
The Colonna di Marco Aurelio on Via Del Corso	The Trevi Fountain, swarming with tourists	A collage shot of the Trevi Fountain
From the Colosseo towards the Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II	The (big, white, ugly?) Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II	Obligatory shot of the Colosseo
The neighbouring Arco di Constantino	Downstairs in the Colosseo	The Foro Romano across the road
The Arco di Constantino from the Colosseo	A collage shot of the Colosseo	Panini and proscuito by the Colosseo
Venturing into the Foro Romano, where Caesers were cremated	The Foro Romano from the Palatino	Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio, complete with campaigners down the side
The Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II from the Piazza Venezia	The Fontana del Tritone in Piazza Barberini, where we kept ending up	In the Hall of Maps in the Vatican
The Piazza & Basilica San Pietro (St Peter's in Vatican City)	Another shot of the Basilica	Everything's laid out for the next day's papal audience
A collage shot of the sqaure	Inside the Basilica	A close-up of the stained glass window
The brass statue of St Peter's, foot worn away by the kisses of pilgrims	The Vatican at dusk up the Via Della Conciliazione	Castel Sant'Angelo, or Hadrian's Mausoleum, from which Tosca threw herself (Act 3)
The Palazzo Farnese, where Tosca bargains for her lover's life (Act2)	The Basilica di Sant' Andrea della Valle, where Tosca helps helps a fugitive escape (Act 1)	A fountain in the Piazza Navona
A "talking statue", where poets would anonymously voice discontent	The Pantheon by night	Bernini's elephant & obelisk in the Piazza della Minerva
Back in the Villa Borghese, relaxing by a lake	Turtles also relaxing by the lake	The Piazza Popolo with obelisk & twin churches
The Spanish Steps (I'm under the left lamppost)	From the top of the Spanish steps	Cocktails in Piazza Popolo shortly before I proposed
	Back at the hotel shortly after I proposed

Then to Naples (as briefly as we could - it stank), Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast

A side-street off Via Tribunali in Naples' Spaccanapoli	The Guglia dell'Immacolata in the Piazza Gesù	The Gesù Nuova Church and Sata Chiara Cloister
The Piazza Gesù as a whole	Walking briskly through the (scary) Piazza Plebiscito	A fleeting shot of the Castel Nuovo
A lava victim in the much calmer (if a tad wet) Pompeii	Another lava victim	Inside the public baths in Pompeii
Still in the public baths	A rain-filled square	The remains of a street
The remains of a courtyard	Obligatory shot of some Pompeii art - the god Priapus measuring himself	A watery amphitheatre
The sun comes out on the Small Theatre	Over the Pompeii's rooftops (or lack thereof)	Pompii from outside
Salerno on the Amalfi Coast	A collage of Amalfi itself & the coastline	The Duomo Sant'Andrea in Amalfi

Across to Sicily

On the ferry between Italy & Sicliy, Messina & the Madonna della Lettera	The Duomo in Taormina	The Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano
Taormina by night	Some lava flow off Etna	The nearby Alcantara gorge - on a day trip with newfound friends Jen & Chris
Carla and me in some freezing water	Jen, Chris & Carla wading through the water	A close-up of the gorge
Etna from the nearby Norman castle Forza D'Agrò	A collage of the side of Etna	A crater on Etna
Chris, Jen, Carla & me - our first toast to our engagement	The beaches at Taormina	Carla in a square in Taormina that matches her birthday
On mainland Syracuse - the (enormous) Altar of Hieron II	The Greek Theatre	The Greek Theare from the top
The Ear of Dionysius, a massive cave	The Roman Amphitheatre	On Syracuse's island, Ortiga - the Duomo
The mountain town of Enna - the Rocca di Cerere	A view of Enna from the Castello di Lombardia	Leaving Enna as a cloud descends
Last stop Palermo - Sunday morning, a double wedding in the Chiesa del Gesù	Holding doves outside the church after the ceremony	Releasing the doves - blurry action shot
The doves fly off	The Chieasa di San Giovanni, built on the site of an Arab mosque	The beautiful Cattedrale, complete with inscription from the Qur'an
A collage of the Teatro Massimo	The Chiesa di San Domenico	The Pretoria Fountain and Town Hall
The Chiesa di San Cataldo with more Arabic influences	A procession of lights & music to celebrate to celebrate a Saint's Day	More processing (I'll add some sound later)
More processing with a statue of the saint	The procession stopped at the church	We left them to it
Our last night in Italy	The Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi	A banyan treen in Piazza Giardino Garibaldi with roots hanging down to touch the ground
Arriving back at the airport	Both families celebrating our engagement on our first evening back