At the beginning of December, we went to Rome for five days to take in the Italian Flute Convention (Flautissimo - gotta love the name) and . . . because it's ROME.
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Flautissimo we heard Trevor give his "Carnival of Venice" show (in which he plays about as many flutes as you can think of, from the C flute to the bass flute, Chinese flutes and multiphonic flutes, electric flutes to a bicycle pump and a carrot - which he cores and tunes on stage). We also heard recitals by
Philippe Bernold,
Juliette Hurel,
Emily Beynon,
Silvia Careddu and others. And of course, I had a chance to partially resurrect some of my ancient Italian - enough to order pizza anyway.
There are so many things I could say about our trip - probably boring both you and me - so since a picture is worth a thousand words (which I would inevitably give you) here are a few pictures to tell you all what we got up to in Rome:
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On the plane
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Off the plane
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In the hotel room
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Out of the hotel room
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At the Pantheon
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The Colosseum
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Constantine's Arch
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| Monument to Vittorio Emmanuele II |
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The Vatican
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The Spanish Steps
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Central fountain at Piazza Navona
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Trevi Fountain
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| Gotcha, Mr Serious! |
So Yun's birthday dinner
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| Ladies who lunch |
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| At the top of the Spanish Steps |
Yep, I had a pretty good time.
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