Colosseum Tourist Photo: A Classic Capture

As I looked for an image to use for this week’s installment, I came across some shots from our trip to Rome in 2017. The amusing part is that I was almost misled by the Mac OS Photo app, as it bundled my photos shot with my Fuji camera with my iPhone shots. Of course, metadata saved me!

So here’s a view in Rome…

Of course, this is a classic tourist shot outside the Colosseum. What I like about this image is the sense of scale as there are people visible on the second level on the left in the image.

This also reminds me to go back through all of these vacation images to put together a more consistent set of posts about these locales. In the mean time take a look at a post from 2017, ‘A Walk across the Forum – pt.3‘which happens to be my most successful post ever thanks to WordPress highlighting it.

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Mama Cormier

April 25, 2025 at 3:04 pm

I have similar photos but they were taken in 2016. Our son and his wife had their wedding in Assisi and we took a train to Rome after the wedding and stayed for three days before flying back home.

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1. jansenphoto
  
  April 25, 2025 at 3:32 pm
  
  For our trip we flew into Rome and stayed in Ostia Antica for the first three days. We took the train into Rome for a day to experience the mob-scene that the Colosseum was on the day we were there. I found our walk across the Forum much more fun, as we actually got space to enjoy the scenery and take in the history.
  
  After that we went to one of the smallest towns in Tuscany for 8 days of glorious day trips. We really enjoyed Italy!
  
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  1. Mama Cormier
    
    April 25, 2025 at 3:57 pm
    
    We loved it as well and hope to return some day soon.
    
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