Journey To Antiquities

[Horace]

Fantastic pics!

[taiwan_girl]

Saint Peter Square with Bascilica in the background - Holy See

From the steps of Saint Peter Bascilia (basically offosite view of above picture)

Emabassies of Holy See. Most are just a single office space in a building just over the "border". Taiwan flag is on the top of the first picture. Interesting that none of the embassies is actually in the Holy See. They are all located in Italy. Also interesting is that Italy does not recognize Taiwan, but yet hosts its embassy. LOL

[George K]

I love your travel photos - especially the ones that have you in them.

[cathys]

Great photos TG! Would love to visit those someday.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Journey To Antiquities:

I love your travel photos - especially the ones that have you in them.

That's because she's the best lookin' thing in the photos!

[taiwan_girl]

@Jolly @George-K Youguys are very kind.

But, the reality is that are lots of cool sites to see there in that part of teh world.

It was amazing (to me at least) for example, that the Rome Coloseum was built in only 9 years.

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in Journey To Antiquities:

It was amazing (to me at least) for example, that the Rome Coloseum was built in only 9 years.

Don't get me started...

Look at how long it took to build the Empire State Building and others from that era. Even the Sears Willis Tower took less than a decade.

Compare with the boondoggles of the Boston tunnel, California's (sort-of) high-speed rail.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K On the tour of the Coloseum, the tour director was talking about how they moved and lifted such large pieces of stone. He said that they basically had a giant hamster wheel attached to ropes/pulleys and there were be tens or hundreds of people walking on this hamster wheel to provide the power. Crazy!!!

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in Journey To Antiquities:

Crazy

There's a video from a long time ago explaining how one man could have done a lot of the work of Stonehenge.

Fascinating stuff.

[bachophile]

@taiwan_girl said in Journey To Antiquities:

It was amazing (to me at least) for example, that the Rome Coloseum was built in only 9 years.

and payed for by the spoils from Jerusalem from Vespasian's and Titus' war against Judea....

just sayin

so I guess you can some ancestor of mine payed for it

[jon-nyc]

And yet another ancestor of yours likely extracted the money with his sword, Signore Ashkenaz.