We went to the Coliseum (a short walk from the hotel) and surrounding
ruins. Pictures much better than mine are easily googled.

We were here & there
http://i35.tinypic.com/2qbu1rb.jpg
http://i35.tinypic.com/dm3dy9.jpg

ceiling
http://i35.tinypic.com/2aenits.jpg

we found ruins that weren't even marked at the end of our street
http://i37.tinypic.com/tah950.jpg

Today's food finds are

Pasta
http://i38.tinypic.com/2virs6a.jpg

specialty pasta
http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg

cheese
http://i37.tinypic.com/29c5r1d.jpg

and a (self serve) deli case
http://i38.tinypic.com/dbt69z.jpg



--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

"sf" > wrote
>
> we found ruins that weren't even marked at the end of our street
> http://i37.tinypic.com/tah950.jpg
>

This is the coolest thing about Italy. So much is so old, people take most
of it for granted. I remember passing a courtyard entrance in the old
section of florence one afternoon, as a young business woman was entering to
go up to her apartment. Her stylish 4-inch heels clicked across a mosaic
floor that had to have been done in the 1400s.

"cybercat" > wrote in message
...
>
> "sf" > wrote
>>
>> we found ruins that weren't even marked at the end of our street
>> http://i37.tinypic.com/tah950.jpg
>>
>
> This is the coolest thing about Italy. So much is so old, people take most
> of it for granted.


The fact that they preserve it and gate it off is an indication that they do
NOT take it for granted.


I remember passing a courtyard entrance in the old
> section of florence one afternoon, as a young business woman was entering
> to go up to her apartment. Her stylish 4-inch heels clicked across a
> mosaic floor that had to have been done in the 1400s.
>

"sf" > wrote in message
>
> Today's food finds are
>
> Pasta
> http://i38.tinypic.com/2virs6a.jpg
>
> specialty pasta
> http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg
>
> cheese
> http://i37.tinypic.com/29c5r1d.jpg
>
> and a (self serve) deli case
> http://i38.tinypic.com/dbt69z.jpg
>

I'm sure you're having a great time and eating well. The pictures sure look
good. Most days in Italy, one of our meals was bread, cheese, salami, and
wine. Try to find the off the path stores and you get a great selection of
wines for a little as 3 Euro a bottle.

What did you think of the Coliseum? Awe inspiring just standing in there.

sf wrote:
> We went to the Coliseum (a short walk from the hotel) and surrounding
> ruins. Pictures much better than mine are easily googled.
>
> We were here & there
> http://i35.tinypic.com/2qbu1rb.jpg
> http://i35.tinypic.com/dm3dy9.jpg
>
> ceiling
> http://i35.tinypic.com/2aenits.jpg
>
> we found ruins that weren't even marked at the end of our street
> http://i37.tinypic.com/tah950.jpg
>
> Today's food finds are
>
> Pasta
> http://i38.tinypic.com/2virs6a.jpg
>
> specialty pasta
> http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg
>
> cheese
> http://i37.tinypic.com/29c5r1d.jpg
>
> and a (self serve) deli case
> http://i38.tinypic.com/dbt69z.jpg
>
>

Lovely pics) Thanks for sharing)

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:52:36 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski" >
wrote:

>
>"sf" > wrote in message
>>
>> Today's food finds are
>>
>> Pasta
>> http://i38.tinypic.com/2virs6a.jpg
>>
>> specialty pasta
>> http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg

I wonder why the pasta looks like penis sketches?


Lou

On 2009-09-24, Gregory Morrow > wrote:

>>>> specialty pasta
>>>> http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg
>>
>> I wonder why the pasta looks like penis sketches?
>
>
> Lol...yer *killin'* me, Lou...

OMG! lol.......

That there's just no way that can be accidental. What are they
called? Penni Pasta?

nb

Lou Decruss wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:52:36 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>> "sf" > wrote in message
>>>
>>> Today's food finds are
>>>
>>> Pasta
>>> http://i38.tinypic.com/2virs6a.jpg
>>>
>>> specialty pasta
>>> http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg
>
> I wonder why the pasta looks like penis sketches?


Lol...yer *killin'* me, Lou...

;-D


--
Best
Greg

Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:52:36 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>> "sf" > wrote in message
>>>
>>> Today's food finds are
>>>
>>> Pasta
>>> http://i38.tinypic.com/2virs6a.jpg
>>>
>>> specialty pasta
>>> http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg
>
> I wonder why the pasta looks like penis sketches?

OMG! That's a scream. Maybe it's an adult pasta shop.

nancy

Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:52:36 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>> "sf" > wrote in message
>>>
>>> Today's food finds are
>>>
>>> Pasta
>>> http://i38.tinypic.com/2virs6a.jpg
>>>
>>> specialty pasta
>>> http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg
>
> I wonder why the pasta looks like penis sketches?

OMG! That's a scream. Maybe it's an adult pasta shop.

nancy

"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in
:

>>>> specialty pasta
>>>> http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg
>>
>> I wonder why the pasta looks like penis sketches?
>
>
> Lol...yer *killin'* me, Lou...

It's Pride Week in Italy?

--

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest
of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest
good of everyone. - John Maynard Keynes

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:02:08 -0500, "Gregory Morrow"
> wrote:

>Lou Decruss wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:52:36 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "sf" > wrote in message
>>>>
>>>> Today's food finds are
>>>>
>>>> Pasta
>>>> http://i38.tinypic.com/2virs6a.jpg
>>>>
>>>> specialty pasta
>>>> http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg
>>
>> I wonder why the pasta looks like penis sketches?
>
>
>Lol...yer *killin'* me, Lou...

Looks like something Agador should have served in the botched up meal
in the movie The Birdcage.

Lou

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:59:17 GMT, notbob > wrote:

>On 2009-09-24, Gregory Morrow > wrote:
>
>>>>> specialty pasta
>>>>> http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg
>>>
>>> I wonder why the pasta looks like penis sketches?
>>
>>
>> Lol...yer *killin'* me, Lou...
>
>OMG! lol.......
>
>That there's just no way that can be accidental.

I would say it was well thought out. Seems it even cums in different
sizes. I assume it's to be served with a meat gravy.

Lou

On 2009-09-24, Lou Decruss > wrote:

> sizes. I assume it's to be served with a meat gravy.

Hardly! A cream sauce.

nb

notbob > wrote:
>On 2009-09-24, Gregory Morrow > wrote:
>>>>> specialty pasta
>>>>> http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg
>>> I wonder why the pasta looks like penis sketches?
>> Lol...yer *killin'* me, Lou...
>OMG! lol.......
>That there's just no way that can be accidental. What are they
>called? Penni Pasta?
>nb

Anybody in Massachusetts seen/been to the Peni's Market North of
Boston? I just laughed and laughed when I first saw the sign. I
forget what town but it was near the shore.

sf > wrote:
>We went to the Coliseum (a short walk from the hotel) and surrounding
>ruins. Pictures much better than mine are easily googled.

More pictures! YAY! I'd like to share a tidbit from my Italian
adventure in the early 90s. So I'm ambling around town and I see this
sign "Senso Unico". I see it again a little bit later and then
several times again here and there...and I think to myself "man Senso
Unico is one long zig zaggy street..." I can't find in on the maps
(map geek) but soon after figure it out. :-)

sf wrote:
> We went to the Coliseum (a short walk from the hotel) and surrounding
> ruins. Pictures much better than mine are easily googled.


I got this real neat book in Rome that showed the Coliseum in its day
and had overlays of it through the ages. It was a tourist thing, but
it's cool.

The only expensive thing I bought in Rome was a rosary from the Vatican
gift shop for the mother of a dear friend. Though I never met the woman,
she prayed her rosary for me when I was so sick 3 years ago and I
thought it would be such a nice thing to get her a rosery from the
Vatican. It was supposedly blessed, too. Whatever that means.

Rose, the lady I bought the rosary for, is thrilled with it. I'm
thrilled to have made such a kind person so happy.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:36:30 -0700, sf > wrote:

>
>We went to the Coliseum (a short walk from the hotel) and surrounding
>ruins. Pictures much better than mine are easily googled.
>
>Today's food finds are
>
>Pasta
>http://i38.tinypic.com/2virs6a.jpg

Are those melons in the background the ones the French call
charontais? Yum.
>
>specialty pasta
>http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg

That's indeed some special pasta.
>
>cheese
>http://i37.tinypic.com/29c5r1d.jpg
>
>and a (self serve) deli case
>http://i38.tinypic.com/dbt69z.jpg

Oh, yeah? Well you ought to see the cheese and salumi case at OUR
market! It's positively craptacular. Well, it would be if our market
had a salumi case.
--

modom

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:02:12 -0400, "Nancy Young"
> wrote:

>OMG! That's a scream. Maybe it's an adult pasta shop.
>
Actually, they were in a sidewalk display next to the bicycle shaped
pasta. I sent that picture for rfc entertainment value.



--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:37:26 -0500, Janet Wilder
> wrote:

>I got this real neat book in Rome that showed the Coliseum in its day
>and had overlays of it through the ages. It was a tourist thing, but
>it's cool.

That *is* cool! I was thinking of buying one of those "old Rome"
poster/maps for my grandson. If I can find a book like that, I'll get
it! Thanks.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:00:18 -0500, "modom (palindrome guy)"
> wrote:

>Are those melons in the background the ones the French call
>charontais? Yum.

I could fill a book with what I don't know! :/

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

sf wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:02:12 -0400, "Nancy Young"
> > wrote:
>
>> OMG! That's a scream. Maybe it's an adult pasta shop.
>>
> Actually, they were in a sidewalk display next to the bicycle shaped
> pasta. I sent that picture for rfc entertainment value.
>
>

Well, thanks for that laugh.

nancy

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:52:36 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski" >
wrote:

>Try to find the off the path stores and you get a great selection of
>wines for a little as 3 Euro a bottle.

Thanks, Ed! We have lots of those streets in this area, but I didn't
even think of going into a wine shop.... mainly because I didn't want
to lug a bottle of wine with me for who knows how long. I will
definitely do it soon though.

>What did you think of the Coliseum? Awe inspiring just standing in there.
>
It's really something! The ruins "across the street" are just as
fascinating and much less crowded. I supposed saw Circus Maximus... I
looked, but didn't see.



--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:48:28 -0400, "Nancy Young"
> wrote:

>Well, thanks for that laugh.

YW! Hopefully I can find something of interest today too.



--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

In article >,
"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:

> "sf" > wrote in message
> >
> > Today's food finds are
> >
> > Pasta
> > http://i38.tinypic.com/2virs6a.jpg
> >
> > specialty pasta
> > http://i35.tinypic.com/2w4y8v7.jpg
> >
> > cheese
> > http://i37.tinypic.com/29c5r1d.jpg
> >
> > and a (self serve) deli case
> > http://i38.tinypic.com/dbt69z.jpg
> >
>
> I'm sure you're having a great time and eating well. The pictures sure look
> good. Most days in Italy, one of our meals was bread, cheese, salami, and
> wine. Try to find the off the path stores and you get a great selection of
> wines for a little as 3 Euro a bottle.

I'm jealous. :-)
I've never been to Europe!

>
> What did you think of the Coliseum? Awe inspiring just standing in there.
--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down."
--Steve Rothstein


Subscribe:

Om wrote:

> I'm jealous. :-)
> I've never been to Europe!

But you have recipes from there, don't you? Please?

Bob

sf wrote:
> We went to the

Day two of faked pictures of a supposed trip to Italy. As you really are
sitting on your lazy ass back home.

"nospam" > ha scritto nel messaggio

> sf wrote:
>> We went to the
>
> Day two of faked pictures of a supposed trip to Italy. As you really are >
> sitting on your lazy ass back home.

I wonder where I really live?

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:29:31 +0200, Giusi wrote:

> "nospam" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>
>> sf wrote:
>>> We went to the
>>
>> Day two of faked pictures of a supposed trip to Italy. As you really are >
>> sitting on your lazy ass back home.
>
> I wonder where I really live?

i *thought* that was you i saw down at the post office.

your pal,
blake