TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE DIARIES

If you ask me where my favorite place in Rome is, it would have to be the western part. No doubt. Of course, I loved the ruins in the south but in this area there is not a single café terrace to sit back, relax, and watch the world go by. Well what can I do, I am a fervent disciple of these café terraces. I just love them ! I love it more when they are located in raging and bustling squares. Oh, just fun! Okay, I am not bashful to put this up and I hope this picture won’t classify my blog as porn, lol. At any rate there seems to be a massive obsession in Italy about the male’s testicles? The statues are not enough, they have to mass print and produce them on boxer shorts, and mind you, even on kitchen aprons too. I was torn at the idea of buying this as a souvenir for the Dutchman but he’ll probably come back to me and say he isn’t macho and I’m just wasting my money? Many travel books and forums often harp about them as THE must-be-avoided-places aka THE tourist traps, because a few ...

Rome is literally a grand open-air museum. In every corner you walk into you will stumble upon some ancient buildings or important relics. My History of Art professor would have been very proud of me for this Rome trip. After all, his 2 years worth of teachings didn’t go down the drain. In fact they haunted me as I have now become a self confessed history buff. In 72 A.D Vespasianus commissioned the construction of the Colosseum. Fights between gladiators and animals were their version of reality show - the feast of 100 days. A lot of Christians were also martyred in the amphitheater and the Pope visits the Colosseum yearly to commemorate the trials and tribulations of the early Christians during the dark middle ages. For those of you that didn’t know, I have a bachelors degree in Fine Arts and a license to practice Interior Design in my previous life (its a mystery why I ended up now in business and IT-Information Technology). I spent the first 2 years of my degree laying down the fun...