Future on the wall

Today Awa on the Road reminded me of my first visit to Roma and Vatican four years ago.

On the wall of the Vatican Museum I took a photo of the map of my future neighbourhood, I just didn’t know it yet. After all, it was only the first time I met my internet friend. We didn’t even have a language in common. His English was speak-as-it-reads, whereas my Italian was limited to the words that Slovenians had nicked from the Italians, such as garderoba (“guardaroba”).

Here is a little tour of the Vatican Museum with the famous Sistine Chapel (where photography is forbidden), but there is much more than that to be seen.

The Vatican wall.

Order of the highest rank.

Roma is in for some rain.

A bathtub?

One big plant.

Serenity.

A hippie.

Not the Pantheon, just similar.

A favourite table.

A favourite floor.

Another amazing piece of floor.

Whereas this is the bling-bling-most ceiling.

Leading to new rooms.

An old map of my domicile. “Caparbio” instead of present Capalbio. No road yet across the lagoon. In the bottom left-hand corner the Giglio Island where Costa Concordia lay to rest.

The heat shower boiling up.

Just the cloak and we’re off.

Photo: a © signature mmm production