As long as I’m in my photo file, here’s something else I meant to post from my trip to Rome — We’ve all seen your standard touristy photo of the Colosseum, to wit:
… and we are usually told that all those little arches originally had statuary in them. So, presumably, it looked something like this store front from near the Spanish Steps:
… or so it seemed to me on a very hot day when the kids were insisting on seeing what McDonalds tasted like in Italy …
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