Friday, May 17, 2019

Day 17 - Serenity

This is that same dome - the St Peter's Dome - that I shot yesterday, but this is shot from inside the Vatican. The dome was designed my Michelangelo himself who started the project when he was 71 years old. After he died, his student completed the work and it was finished in 26 years later, in 1590. The dome is 136 m high and 42 m in diameter. If you want to climb to the top, it's a whopping 491 steps to the top. Sadly, we didn't do that though. We ended up going the other way, climbing down to the tombs of the popes beneath the cathedral, and after that we were utterly famished, so we left the country to go get a bite to eat... 


What a strange thing to say eh? Leaving a country to go eat something... There are actually a few restaurants inside, but we're a picky couple when it gets to food. We travel as much for the food as for anything else and we carefully pick the restaurants we go to beforehand to avoid tourist traps and mediocre places. Apps like TripAdvisor is a great way to achieve that - it helped turn our trip into a wonderful food experience :)

/MrsHjort

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