L'angolo tra Via dei Gracchi e Via Fabio Massimo
I spent the last two hours in this seat, capturing as many interesting photos as possible from this single location in Rome, Italy, on the early evening of Monday, July 8, 2024.
Welcome to a little Roman photo essay I created, if only to entertain myself: L'angolo tra Via dei Gracchi e Via Fabio Massimo.
These two sparked the thought. We don't see many fully frocked nuns from the Vatican in Ranelagh, where I live in Tasmania.
Food and drinks from an ice creamery, a café bar and ristorante, and a few other spots at the corner of Via dei Gracchi and Via Fabio Massimo show how many food options are around here.
Since these are streets, you might have expected some vehicles. I extended my stay to two hours because I missed a classic Italian road rage incident: one man screaming at another, making a pointed gesture, exasperatedly sighing, and then driving off, completely forgetting about the incident.
I met quite a few local dogs and birds. There was also a rat, but I was too slow to catch it.
And of course, some locals.
Photos composed and created by me with my Canon EOS R5, the Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 lens, edited in Lightroom CC, with Carssun’s Amalfi Coast presets.
Professor Giuseppe’s Grand Hotel Tritone and its 1000-odd steps to the beach.
Some frames I have a captured on the Amalfi coast this week
When you’re hot-headed and your Ray-Bans stage an intervention
Why did they call it the Amalfi Coast when they could of called it the Stairs Coast and it would’ve been far more accurate
My favourite thing to do whilst in Italy is to pretend to not be in Australian then surprise traveling Aussies with a big “G’Day, mate!”
Apple Health: You’ve been on tour through Asia and Europe for four weeks.
Flighty: Your journey home begins in nine days.
Me: This is going to ruin the tour.
I was trying to to get to the Metro Linea 2 in Napoli, I saw this series of lines, and let’s just say that things escalated quickly
Pictures of steak I ate in Florence
Some things I looked at in Roma, Italy
You don’t like to see that other person neglecting their homework when it comes to growth through intimacy so you take on the curriculum yourself.
Some frames from Tuscany this last week
Do you ever see someone else’s project and realise that everything you’ve ever done in your life is meaningless? That’s for me dropofahat.zone
Colours of Toscana
May the API bless you, Threads humans
Perugia’s People Movers
My local laundromat in Passignano is closed on Sundays so I journeyed over to Perugia, Umbria, for my clothes washing today, caught a glance of something that looked like a monorail, turned out it was a MiniMetro, a “family of cable propelled automated people mover systems”
Quoting Wikipedia:
Perugia People Mover: In Perugia, a 3,027-meter (9,931 ft; 1.881 mi) stretch with seven stations opened in February 2008 to relieve the inner city of car traffic. It consists of more than 25 vehicles of 5 m (16 ft 4+7⁄8 in) each, with a capacity of 25 passengers and a speed of up to 25 kilometers (16 mi) per hour. The interval between successive vehicles is around 1.5 minutes. In 2013, the system carried 10,000 passengers per day.
Scopello // Sicilia
Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, in 1981:
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Fortunately, because Apple is delaying Apple Intelligence and these other new features in the EU, all of the thriving EU-based smartphone and OS makers can jump in and compete on merit now, without Apple the gatekeeping bully in their way. As Vestager reiterates throughout the interview, competition is the European Commission’s north star.
Posted from the EU.