July 09, 2009

The Adventure

This last weekend a few people remaining in Rome decided to make a side adventure to Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli. There were five willing to make the adventure but some did not return. The five started out taking a train ride from Tirmani and two and a half hours later after delays, waiting, and switching trains, arrived only to know that they had to walk two miles and catch a bus. They took the wrong bus though to get to the Villa because of a few reasons,
1. it was small
2. there were elderly
3. it didn't go anywhere close to Hadrian's Villa
The effort was worth it when the travelers walked into the Villa and the first thing they were confronted by was the wall to one of the pools. It was a fantastic wall. The length and the scale was unimaginable. It was hard for the travelers to believe just how large the Villa was when it was fully constructed and in use.

However.....

On the return, the travelers found the right bus to take them home but it was taking so long that they started to walk away and looked for a new bus stop that would take them back to the train station. They were about 100 yards down the road when the bus came and they all started to run back for the bus. Sadly only three of made it on the bus and the other two were left behind.

They are still missing....

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