Dinner at the Vatican
The shuttle buses departing from the Auditorium Parco della Musica each had a sign indicating the language of the onboard tour guide (the entire Business Leadership Forum was simultaneously translated and available to all attendees through headphones in Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, German, and English). The route from the auditorium took us through the […]
Business Leadership Forum – 1
The shuttle buses dropped us off and we walked a few hundred feet through a large courtyard to the Auditorium Parco della Musica. It is quite an impressive place and of the thousands of "auditoriums" in the world, only this one has the url of http://www.auditorium.com. The "city of music" lies outside of Rome’s densely-packed […]
Roman Geocaching
I was anxious to get going so I quickly selected three geocaches that were closest to the hotel — Forum’s Revival, Coliseum, and Circus Maximus — downloaded the latitudes and longitudes into the Magellan eXplorist GPS and hit the street. It would have been much better if I had done some better planning, reviewed the […]
Roman Rendezvous – Introduction
Short stories are usually better than long stories but this past week contained so much to share that it can not be told in one short story. The highlight was when five-hundred of us entered the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel in a rare way — the buildings had been closed to the public and […]
Roman Rendezvous: Arrival
The American Airlines flight to Rome was long but smooth. Arrival at the Westin Excelsior was exactly thirteen hours from home. After a short nap was a planned phone conversation with Peter Kammerer, Foreign Editor for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Peter wanted to discuss the future of blogging, which is a […]
