Now here I have to admit I am cheating.
This was not Barbarella's essential walk in 2020, but her holiday in Rome, long before the virus and travel restrictions.
My own pictures of the "Eternal City" are filed under a collection of odd titles which are not easily found and so I was happy when Barbarella offered up these.
This as everyone will know is the Tiber and back in the early 1950s, somewhere along here was that floating bar which featured in Roman Holiday. The film remains a favourite of mine, partly because it is a daft romantic story, but also because the backdrop is Rome in 1953.
And as you do each time we watch it; we do the touristy bit of picking out the places we know and reflecting on how different they look today.
So, I will mutter about the tons of euro coins we have thrown in the Trevi Fountain and Tina will yet again tell me about the man, the ice cream and the Spanish Steps.
But despite a series of walks along the Tiber I have never found that floating bar., although the boat on the water in her picture looks promising.
On the other hand, Barbarella must have chosen the only day when the Gladiators were not out and about at the foot of the Colosseum posing for pictures with tourists.
I don’t begrudge anyone a living, but paying a shedload of money to stand beside Eric from Morecambe and Lib from Milan dressed in a plastic breastplate and helmet, with a bendy sword from the Euro Shop, doesn’t capture the historic moment of the Colosseum.
Well that is it …… I could wax historical on the river and the amphitheatre, but their stories are too well known.
Location Rome
Pictures; The Tiber and the Colosseum, from the collection of Barbarella Benevento
My own pictures of the "Eternal City" are filed under a collection of odd titles which are not easily found and so I was happy when Barbarella offered up these.
This as everyone will know is the Tiber and back in the early 1950s, somewhere along here was that floating bar which featured in Roman Holiday. The film remains a favourite of mine, partly because it is a daft romantic story, but also because the backdrop is Rome in 1953.
So, I will mutter about the tons of euro coins we have thrown in the Trevi Fountain and Tina will yet again tell me about the man, the ice cream and the Spanish Steps.
But despite a series of walks along the Tiber I have never found that floating bar., although the boat on the water in her picture looks promising.
On the other hand, Barbarella must have chosen the only day when the Gladiators were not out and about at the foot of the Colosseum posing for pictures with tourists.
I don’t begrudge anyone a living, but paying a shedload of money to stand beside Eric from Morecambe and Lib from Milan dressed in a plastic breastplate and helmet, with a bendy sword from the Euro Shop, doesn’t capture the historic moment of the Colosseum.
Well that is it …… I could wax historical on the river and the amphitheatre, but their stories are too well known.
Location Rome
Pictures; The Tiber and the Colosseum, from the collection of Barbarella Benevento
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