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November 20, 2007

A Day Around Rome

I recently had the chance to go to Rome for a sales meeting with our Europe, Middle East and African sales force. My flight landed Sunday morning so I had one "power day" to see Rome. I hooked up with a group of marketing folks and we set out about the historic areas of the city.

Since it was Sunday, we went over to the Vatican where we had a chance to see Pope Benedict address the crowd in St. Peter's Square. Here's a brief snippet of his address in English that I caught with the digital camera:

Here's a photo looking up from the square and the crowds below: StPetersSquare.jpg

Some of the other sites we saw included the Pantheon:
Pantheon.jpg

and Trevi Fountain:
TreviFountain.jpg

and the Victor Emmanuel II monument:
VictorEmmanuelIIMonument.jpg

After the long flight without a whole lot of sleep I ran out of steam before I could see and get pictures of the the Roman Colosseum.

Overall it was a great meeting and sales folks are fired up to keep pounding the bad guys.

Ciao!

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