Europe 23 May to 1 July 2008: Italy, France, Spain, England

A couple of my loyal readers mentioned that this blog was very slow to load and crashed their computers. That's because I had everything...

Above: Our Singapore Air A380 ready for boarding at Sydney Airport 22 May 2008 Above: From the vantage point of Row 62 in Economy (Main D...

Above: The Pyramid of Cestius (Piramide di Caio Cestio) which gives the Piramide district its name. It was built c. 18-12 BC as a tomb for...

Above: The Circus Maximus - once Rome's largest stadium. It was begun in the 4th C BC, and the last races were held in AD 549. The gra...

We've visited the Vatican and its museums, as well as St Peter's Basilica several times before. In 2003 we gave the museums a miss, ...