Sunday, September 4, 2011

What It's Like: Arrival at the Port of Rome Civitavecchia

"This Civitavecchia is the finest nest of dirt, vermin, and ignorance we have found yet except that African perdition they call Tangier."

-Mark Twain (The Innocents Abroad, Chapter XXV).

2 comments:

  1. Ah, Samuel Clemens, the Lincoln of our literature!

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  2. Ha, that's funny! Mark Twain had such a sense of humor!

    I read 'The Innocents Abroad' in high school.

    Barb

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