Today’s entry is only half an entry. My pen ran out and in the intervening ten years, I never got around to finishing it.<\/p>\n
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Surely I will melt into nothing but a pile of cotton clothing and tour brochures in this unending, incessant, infernal heat. The air itself doesn’t even seem particularly hot, but I sweat and sweat and become more and more impatient with the heat. No wonder all the shops and services close from 12 or 1 pm to 3 or 4 in the afternoon, or sometimes as late as 5 or 6. No one wants to be out in the mid-day Roman sun.<\/em>
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In 15 minutes, I’ll be joining an archeological tour of the Colosseum, then I’m off to explore the ruins of the Roman Forum. Yesterday, with 80,000 of my closest friends, I toured the Vatican – St Peter’s Basillica, the Vatican Museums and of course, the Sistine Chapel. The Sistine Chapel was even more breathtaking than I expected it to be. The fresco with the hand of God reaching…<\/em><\/p>\n