Well if i could, i would have named this post the roman holiday, but since i am here in a school for 12 days attending lectures from 8:30 in the morning to 6 PM in the evening it can hardly be called a vacation. However as the organisers were so kind, i got some free time off last sunday and went to see Rome. My travelouges are usually descriptive and vivid, with loads of passion, but since i am yet to remember the names of the places i had been to I will keep thi spost short and simple.
Rome was not built in a day . Hence you cannot complete sightseeing of rome in one day.
All roads lead to rome. This is true in Italy. They do lead to rome.
And when in rome be the roman. Not entirely true. Every public tourist spot I went to there were so many people from bangladesh speaking in their mother tongue that I was visibly surprised.
When people visit rome, they would tell you about the palaces, the museums, the ruins (forms) the Colloseum. Let me tell you about something else. While we were in the bus early sunday morning having a tour through the old part of the city, there was a place where our bus was caught up in the traffic. Suddenly our guide who was going on droning in a monotonous tone, belting out names of roman emperors, popes, and other digniteries, jumped up and said "Now i am sure that this little lane will interest you" . It was a little lane in old rome, with normal builings on either side. She pointed out to a little yellow building in the left side and said " this was the original laboratory of Enrico Fermi, where he and Majorana worked together".
Apparantly whenever other tourists go by , she would just make a passing remark. Since our bus had a bunch of accelerator scientists mostly from CERN, she was glad that someone would really appreciate the worth of this little yellow building in the streets, amongst all the fountains and castles and marbles and ruin.
As the bus lazed by, en route to the vatican, i saw for myself what was the original "FERMILAB" .
N.B. Some part of the post, especially some names,acronyms are technical/scientific. You might try to contact me or wikipedia incase you need extra information
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Ionda... I really dont care abt punctns, grammer, spelling and abbreviations on blogs. but as a physicist both of us, i'd like to see 'Ernic Fermi' changed to 'Enrico Fermi'!!! thnx... [:)]
Ohhhh sorry Dharmu da .. I agree it is a big mistake on my part , but now its corrected !
Roma! What a city. I seem to love it more and more as time passes; I remember not being too fond - because of the heat and the tourist floodings (guilty!) - while I was in the city. But yes, if you want history, Rome is the place to be!
As one finds Pakistanis and Indians in England, Turks in Austria, there are Bengalis in Rome. Had the best Chicken Biryani of my life while I was there!
How's the experience going? I miss Europe!
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extra reading. yes. why not, we can never get enough of that in our lives, can we?
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