In May we will be visiting Rome for a few days with my daughters (aged 12 &
15). Apart from the usual sights and museums etc is anybody able to
recommend any alternatives in the city or just outside? Also has anybody
been to the nearby waterpark - if so is it worth a visit please?

Many thanks
Dave

Dave Smith wrote:

    > In May we will be visiting Rome for a few days with my daughters (aged 12 &
    > 15). Apart from the usual sights and museums etc is anybody able to
    > recommend any alternatives in the city or just outside? Also has anybody
    > been to the nearby waterpark - if so is it worth a visit please?
    > Many thanks
    > Dave

May I suggest a hard pad each to protect their bottoms from the incessant
pinching by the "smoothie" Italian studs?

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Dave Smith wrote:
    >
    > In May we will be visiting Rome for a few days with my daughters (aged 12 &
    > 15). Apart from the usual sights and museums etc is anybody able to
    > recommend any alternatives in the city or just outside? Also has anybody
    > been to the nearby waterpark - if so is it worth a visit please?

A few days is very little time to spend in Rome; I would almost advise
not going anywhere else. At most, maybe a trip to Ostia Antica (a
well-preserved ancient Roman town) or maybe a trip to one of the
catacombs. Both can be done in half a day.

You haven't mentioned what sorts of things interest your daughters. One
museum I think might be interesting to kids their age is the Doria
Pamphilj Gallery. It is a Roman palazzo, still inhabited by the original
family, with not only art work but also furnishings and tapestries.
There is an excellent audio tour narrated by a son of the family.

Other attractions I would suggest are Castel Sant'Angelo, with a
spectacular view of the city from its terrace, supper one night in
Trastevere, the Market of Hadrian (sort of an ancient Roman shopping
mall, now used for temporary displays of art), the Piazza Navonna at
night, and lots of gelato.

Barbara

Rory Crute wrote:
    >
    > Dave Smith wrote:
    >
    > > In May we will be visiting Rome for a few days with my daughters (aged 12 &
    > > 15). Apart from the usual sights and museums etc is anybody able to
    > > recommend any alternatives in the city or just outside? Also has anybody
    > > been to the nearby waterpark - if so is it worth a visit please?
    > >
    > > Many thanks
    > > Dave
    >
    > May I suggest a hard pad each to protect their bottoms from the incessant
    > pinching by the "smoothie" Italian studs?

Don't be ridiculous.

Barbara

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:19:26 +0100, Barbara Vaughan wrote:

    >Rory Crute wrote:
    >>
    >> Dave Smith wrote:
    >>
    >> > In May we will be visiting Rome for a few days with my daughters (aged 12 &
    >> > 15).
    >>
    >> May I suggest a hard pad each to protect their bottoms from the incessant
    >> pinching by the "smoothie" Italian studs?
    >Don't be ridiculous.

Are you saying that the Smith girls have unatractive bottoms?


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Jesper Lauridsen wrote:
    >
    > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:19:26 +0100, Barbara Vaughan wrote:
    >
    > >
    > >
    > >Rory Crute wrote:
    > >>
    > >> Dave Smith wrote:
    > >>
    > >> > In May we will be visiting Rome for a few days with my daughters (aged 12 &
    > >> > 15).
    > >>
    > >> May I suggest a hard pad each to protect their bottoms from the incessant
    > >> pinching by the "smoothie" Italian studs?
    > >
    > >Don't be ridiculous.
    >
    > Are you saying that the Smith girls have unatractive bottoms?

We're basically talking about children here; are you saying Rome is full
of pedophiles?

Barbara

le Tue, 04 Mar 2003 13:50:55 +0100, dans l'article , Barbara Vaughan a dit ...

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    >> Are you saying that the Smith girls have unatractive bottoms?

    > We're basically talking about children here; are you saying Rome is full
    > of pedophiles?

It wouldn't be peodophilia if the boys were the same age.

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"Barbara Vaughan" wrote in message
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    > We're basically talking about children here; are you saying Rome is full
    > of pedophiles?

We're wandering off-topic here, but the older girl at least would certainly
be post-pubescent. While she would be beneath an arbitrary age of consent in
most (but not all) European countries, she would be attractive to men as a
young woman rather than as a child. She would be of an age at which she
could marry under Roman Catholic canon law. The true paedophile is attracted
to pre-pubescent children. The forty-inch bust which caused a British
tabloid "newspaper" to run a readers' poll on whether the fifteen-year-old
Natalie Banus should pose topless on her sixteenth birthday, or Charlotte
Church's ownership of the "rear of the year", aren't features which would
appeal to a paedophile.

However, returning to the main point, Barbara is certainly right to ridicule
any idea that Roman men are gropers. I haven't seen any untoward incidents
in the city for moer than thirty years. Neither Italian women nor female
visitors would tolerate such behaviour, nor do I believe that Roman men are
inclined to engage in sexual assault.

Alan Harrison