Round-the-World Holiday, June 23 - July 28, 2003

Detail from the Fountain of the Four Rivers, which stands in the center of the Piazza. It depicts the Ganges, the Nile, the Danube, and the Rio de la Plata.

This is a view of the Roman obelisk that stands above the Fountain of Four Rivers.

This is the Pantheon, another cool classical pagan temple that the early Christians turned it a pretty boring church.

There are public drinking fountains all over Rome, and not the crappy modern kind. For instance, here's one I liked. (I have no idea where it was.) They still pull their water from the ancient aquaducts and it's cold, clear, and delicious. Free good drinking water is truly the mark of an advanced civilization (at least from a tourist perspective in the summer), if you ask me.

View of Trajan's Column, which tells the story of this emperor's battle against the Dacians. Pretty neat.

It's me and the famous Trevi Fountain.

Legend has it that if you throw a coin over your shoulder into the Trevi Fountain, you're sure to return to Rome. Throw another and you'll fall in love with an Italian, and throw a third and you'll marry him! This is me throwing two in. (As the Snook claims to be only "a little" Italian, I only threw in pennies.) :)

Here's a bad picture of the Snook throwing in his coin.