caitriona.net : a photoblog

paddling

2008-07-24T21:57:43+00:00

wedding bouquet

2008-07-10T22:20:21+00:00

building & flowers

2008-06-30T22:25:02+00:00

at the trevi fountain

2008-06-24T22:49:53+00:00

random romans

2008-06-23T22:41:25+00:00

albergo abruzzi

2008-06-18T22:58:57+00:00

]]>last of the windows in yellow painted walls - but only because i didn't take any more. i think this one was taken on the square that the pantheon is on. just one of the many amazingly adorable squares - lined with cafes & restaurants - with rows of tables spilling out in front...

italian curtains

2008-06-18T08:52:04+00:00

]]>a different building to yesterday, but the same wonderful paint/plaster colour that features on a lot of roman buildings. i took this photo for the beautifully extravagant curtains on show. it's a pity about the reflection across them - if i was any sort of a photoshop whizz at all, i'd try and clone them out, but honestly, i just couldn't be arsed.

geranium window boxes

2008-06-16T21:26:55+00:00

nearly st peter's

2008-06-10T22:10:53+00:00

]]>you can just about see the dome of st peter's through the pillars. this was the closest i got to the biggest church in the world during my time in rome. maybe given that i was tempted to rinse my ice-cream sticky fingers in the holy water font of the only other church i visited on the trip, this isn't such a bad thing. of course i never actually would have washed my hands in the font - but i suspect the temptation of it would be enough to set off the 'sinner' alarms that they surely have at the doors of all vatican churches?

basilica

2008-06-09T22:50:54+00:00

]]>we stumbled unexpectedly into this church with a great mouthful of a name - 'basilica santa maria degli angeli e dei martiri'. we were actually looking for an open-top bus when we walked past. i was eating gelati (chocolate & drippy. yum!) and for some reason decided (correctly?) that i shouldn't go into a church whilst eating, so aonghus popped inside first. when he hadn't re-appeard by the time i'd finished the gelati i sticky-handedly followed him in. i think i was half-hoping for a holy-water font where i could bless myself and relieve some of the stickiness but fortunately there was none.

campo de fiori

2008-06-05T23:16:38+00:00

]]>taking a food-break on campo de fiori. if i recall correctly, i had my lunch-time pizza. later that evening i had my dinner-time pizza. for the whole time in rome i mostly ate pizza. there were a couple of pasta meals, but mostly it was pizza.

and the main reason we picked this restaurant to eat in was because of the red checked tablecloths.

the colosseum

2008-06-04T21:42:19+00:00

]]>taken as we whizzed past it on a very handy open-top tourist bus. we did get off the bus and go in for a visit a bit later.

ruins on palatine hill

2008-06-03T23:20:13+00:00

]]>back from rome. had a glorious extra-long weekend (irish people just *blossom* in the sunshine) and a fabulous wedding. managed to squeeze in a surprising amount of site-seeing. and took a fair few photos - though as always wish i had taken more and better.

this was taken on palatine hill, which is home to the familiar-sounding (if you've read i claudius) 'house of livia' and 'house of augustus'.

lunch in the garden

2008-05-28T23:24:47+00:00

]]>we were treated to the most delicious al fresco lunch in our friend's parents' garden on sunday. it was just about warm enough to sit out but well worth it.

and now i'm off to a wedding and a whirlwind sight-seeing tour of rome for the weekend. ciao!

billy buttons

2008-05-26T22:25:47+00:00

]]>i've been enviously eyeing up these fabulously cool flowers (with the *best* name - billy buttons!) on various people's websites for the last year or so and it was only recently that it dawned on me - in this carbon-rich age of global shippping and international flower transportation, i could just buy some myself.

so with the help of a friend's flower business, that's exactly what i did!

i've had them at least three weeks now and they're holding up remarkably well - i've taken them out of water and am hoping they'll dry naturally and ideally will continue on indefinitely.