Brandy and Water

The Tiber River is one of Rome's most underappreciated and ignored places. It serves more as a geographic marker separating the Vatican, the Gianiculum Hill, and Trastevere ("across the Tiber") from the rest of the Center. But it really is pretty--just don't swim in it--and offers some amazing views.


















Here's the view from the Ponte Principe Amedeo (where Brandy and I saw an awful fireworks display in 1999), over the Tiber, looking at the Castel Sant'Angelo (the circular behemoth on the right).



"The sailors say...


















--Jack