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     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.119.24 |
For anyone interested - I've just bunged a few of the hundreds of pics I took t'other week. Sorry about the huge one though - forgot to shrink it! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
And I've just added a handful from Seville . . . | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.173 |
Unfortunately I don't have any pictures to put up... gcw  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.119.24 |
You will have though! | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.173 |
 gcw | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
And they'll be good 'uns, GCW! | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.3 |
Hi Mick! I was born and live in Rome. I saw your pics, they really catch the mood! Did you see the fake praetorians at the Colosseo? It takes 10 euros for a group "historical photo" with them. I have seen only Japs fall in for it. Not it would not be fun but, as I love my City and her History, I resent such touristic props. They are not even accurate, besides. They wear long rubber sword swinging in fashion of rapiers whereas Roman soldiers wore their weapons tight on their right side albeit that may seem antithetical to right-handedness. No, they had to keep shields close to them by their left hand, not allowing any chinks in the legion's serried formation, so they learned to draw their swords unswingingly to keep their ranks tight against enemy onslaught, possibly after hurling their "pila" to soften the brunt of the battle. Well...that's just for information. I am nobody's teacher. Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Do you ever go to Fantafestival, Giancarlo? (No, Joel, that isn't a weekend of drinking fizzy orange drinks...) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.5.39 |
Hi Giancarlo - thanks for the kind comments! Yes, we saw the praetorians - they seemed to be quite popular with a lot of tourists there. It's a great city and we'd love to go back some day. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.3 |
Hi Mick! It's pity we didn't meet in Rome! Next time, I hope. Which kind of gladiator would you root for? The Secutor - as K. Douglas in the Spartacus movie? (though he didn't wear any helmet) - or the Retiarius - as W. Strode in the same flick?...well, there were many kind of them, the Greek, the Sannite...they had lots of fantasy in pairing fighters sporting weak and strong points in compensation. There is cruel fascination in just imagining how it all could be in the arena. The Ridley Scott movie caught some of the mood but is little historical in the factual description of the games. Meet you there sometimes...not as antagonists in the arena...I hope. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.3 |
Hi Ramsey! I just went to Fantafestival once. It was years ago. I was overwhelmed by the uproarious crowd of fans, I could not even enjoy the movies, the loud audience seemed undiscriminating of the best ones, so I went no more, just being satisfied with waiting for the good ones to come out for regular performance. Pity I wasn't there when you were the Special Guest! Yours, Giancarlo |