“Wherever you go, I
follow”… The promise that I made to my husband on our wedding day.
Wives, follow the lead of your husbands as you
follow the Lord. The husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the
head of the church. The church is Christ's body. He is its Savior. The church follows the lead of Christ. In the
same way, wives should follow the lead of their husbands in everything. Ephesians
5:22-24
Hence I flew off to
Europe without any knowledge where I am heading to, except for my husband who
have painstakingly did up the itinerary for us. I am a control-freak, so it was
a new level of faith and allowing hub to take the lead.
Day1: Rome City
Once we touched down at
Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in the morning, we took the Leonardo
Express train to Rome Termini Station. And just 5min walk we reached Hotel
Dharma. Explorer you could call us and we love doing it by foot and clearly we
conquered the city in a day.
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| First stop: Spanish steps with my colorful umbrella |
Since it was raining
heavily, we had buffet lunch at Open
Colonna at only € 16 (only on weekdays lunch)
After the good Tiramisu, hub started his navigation and off we wandered again.
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| Ps: Beware, they grab hold of you so tightly and request you to take photo, afterwhich, they made you pay. |
Pantheon
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| What a waste, it was a gloomy day |
And you gonna try this! In my opinion, this is the best gelato I ever had!
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| Address: Via del Governo Vecchio, 112, 00186 Roma, Italy |
Vatican: Day 2
This
is one of my favorite ceiling. From the left, it is the story of the Pact
between God and Noah (Genesis 7). Continuing
clockwise, the Sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis
22). Moses before the burning the Bush (Exodus
3) and finally Jacob's Ladder (Genesis
28).
Below is the Stairway
toward Sistine Chapel. No photo is
allowed in the chapel.
The
ceiling of the Chapel was drawn by Michelangelo in 1508.
We
ended our Vatican day tour by climbing up to the dome of the Vatican Chapel. It
was breathtaking.
The night
was young as we understand that Rome is having a "night in the
museum" festival going on which allows visitors to pay only €1 to enter from 8pm to 2am.
We headed to somewhere random for dinner
but it was reasonably good in food and price
There are too many museum we could choose
from but we were alittle sick with sculptures, so we decided to tour the a
castle in the night. Eerie... Castle
Sant' Angelo we went.
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| Us climbing the long stairway to the top sleeping chamber. |
