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Category Archives: On the road
ROME DAY 11: Butchers, Roman Rosary, and an Odd Dessert
Today’s Roman Sunrise 17:19, Sunset 18:33. The Ave Maria is fixed these days at 18:45. Yesterday was about as perfect a Sunday as one could desire. Not only was John Henry Newman canonized, but the weather was magnificent, everything one … Read More
ROME DAY 10: Conference, Requiem and Guts
Your yellow Sun rose today at 7:18 and will set at 18:35, while no one will hear the Ave Maria bell at 18:45. There was a conference yesterday at the Angelicum (the Dominicans’ university) about John Henry Newman. The line … Read More
ROME DAY 9: Campo, Clams and a Canonization Sonnet
Sunrise was at 7:17 this morning and my phone will announce Colors at 18:36. HOWEVER, the Ave Maria has changed to 18:45! How time flies. Yesterday, being Friday, I wanted to get some fish. My first idea was to have … Read More
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ROME DAY 8: Bridges, Inscriptions, Cheeses
In Rome sunrise was at 7:14 and the Sunset will be at 18:40 and the poor Ave Maria bell is still set, in vain, to ring at 19:00 for the Curia. Under one of these ROME posts someone mentioned a … Read More
ROME DAY 7: Weird Amazon Stuff, Death and a Spatula
Sunrise – 7:14, Colors – 18:40, Ave Maria 19:00. Rome is truly “crazy town” right now. Over at Santa Maria in Transpontina there is a display, with people stationed to offer help to the curious, of what (they hope) the … Read More
ROME DAY 6: Twisty Tower, Tuna, and “Tini”
Sunrise was 7:13 and Colors will sound tonight at 18:41. Once again 19:00 is the Ave Maria (as if anyone even bothers with that any more). One of the great rivals of the history of art in Rome was between … Read More
ROME DAY 5: Marks, Medieval Lions, and Mussolini Trees
Roman Sunrise was at 6:47 and Colors will sound at 18:43. The Ave Maria is still pinned at 19:00. The walls of Rome provide both endless fascination and deep contempt for its moronic youth, some of whom seem to have … Read More
ROME DAY 4: Carbonara, Caravaggio, altar idiocy
On this Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary the Roman Aurora is at 6:45, Sunrise 7:11, Sunset 18:45 and the Ave Maria is still set at 19:00, not that anyone pays attention to it anymore. I am reviewing Chesterton’s … Read More
ROME DAY 2: Greens and greens
Today the Roman Aurora is at 6:43, Sunset at 20:48 and the Ave Maria at 19:00. Some of you have asked about my green grocer. She’s still at it, in the stall in the Campo de’ Fiori, every day. One … Read More
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