Category: Architecture

All things architecture

Rome, I am overwhelmed.

Architecture, Reflections, Rome, Sights

Rome, Rome, Rome. Rome is by far the most beautiful city I have ever been to.  Not that it is sparkling clean, or smells like roses everywhere.  It’s old, it’s weathered, it aged very well. It is so easy to become numb and overwhelmed by the beauty of this city.  If you were to take any of hundreds of buildings found in Rome and put it in any other city, it would become an architectural attraction in that city.  In Rome, it is just another beautiful building.  I started off by taking a lot of pictures, but that got old very quickly.  If[…]

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Avinash the Dome Climber

Architecture, Reflections, Religion, Rome, Sights

Avinash for the most part has been fantastic about all of the walking we have been doing in Rome. I haven’t had this much exercise since we trained for the triathlon and marathon. While Avinash can be very unpredictable with when he wants or does not want to walk, when he does put his mind to it, he shows surprising stamina. For instance, in London, we found a race track and Avinash suddenly wanted to run around the track. Of course, I wasn’t going to hold him back, so we started to run. He would get tired, but then he[…]

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London Flat

Architecture

Sun drenched flat in 5 story walk up on quiet residential street in Maida Vale. We have decided to use Airbnb for most of our accommodations.  Honestly, we need to be able to have some sense of ‘home’ while we are on the road and hotel rooms won’t cut it.  Besides being too expensive to stay in for extended periods there is just not enough room.  When we were in Boston for 3 nights and had to stay in one we were climbing over our bags to get to the bed and bumping into each other to get to the[…]

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