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Diary Australia

Roman Diary

10 March 2016

3:00 PM

10 March 2016

3:00 PM

I love Rome. I love how the old is woven into the new, so the ruins of some dead medieval building now form a wall of a living apartment block. I love how you can walk from where St Peter was buried, having been crucified upside down, to the hotel on the Via Nazionale where Cardinal George Pell was crucified last week.

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