Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time 500 years ago this week.
Have you ever seen them? It's an amazing experience.
Here's how to do it:
1
Get in the Vatican Museum line an hour before it opens.
2
Once inside, walk very quickly to the Sistine Chapel [it will be in the...
Before speaking, I think:
"When I married this woman, I promised to love and respect her. Does what I would like to say fall into those categories of 'love' and/or 'respect'?"
This has stopped me numerous times from saying something I would wish I could take back.
It's can also be a Western cultures thing. For example, in Spain it would be rude to point and stare....but staring is absolutely commonplace and not considered to be rude.
Czechoslovakia was the union of two peoples: Czechs and Slovaks. They now each have their own republics
The Czech Republic's capital is Prague, the Slovak Republic's capital is Bratislava.
Czechs make some of the best beers in the world...as do the Germans!
Seeing the people demonstrate in Tehran over REAL life issues and the people riot in LA over a championship win made me realize that some people have messed up priorities..
Proud of the Iranian demonstrators, disgusted with the LA rioters.