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T_i_B

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33. I was also in Rome in September

Reply to Deep State Witch (Reply #28)

Wed Dec 25, 2024, 04:06 PM

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A few days past the heatwave. I was in Calabria for that.

Much of Rome was covered in scaffolding as they were getting ready for the Papal Jubilee. Most people in Britain and America have never heard of it but it's a big deal in Italy!

Me and my wife didn't go inside St Peter's Basilica on account of the enormous queue to get in but I brought a few things from a Vatican bookshop and we went into a smaller Church on the way out of the Vatican and stayed while they had a little service.

The Basilica we did visit in Rome was St Paul's Outside The Walls and that is astounding.

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