Oh No! We'll Never Return to Rome!!

I'd heard that Fendi was financing the renovation of the Trevi Fountain but I never thought it would be closed while WE were in Rome.  According to ANSA,  work started in June and it won't be finished until fall of 2015.  They've set up a temporary receptacle for tossing your coins but it's not the same and it won't work the same magic as the real fountain.  It would be like drinking bottled water on the Ramblas in Barcelona instead of drinking out of the tap (although it hasn't worked to send us back to Barcelona, has it?).  I guess we're just going to have to go back to Rome after fall of 2015.  Maybe for Christmas.  And Barcelona wouldn't be a bad place to visit around the holidays either.  Oh wait, next Christmas will be at our house.  Do you think we could all meet in Barcelona instead??

To keep tabs on the progress of the Trevi Fountain renovation, here's a Live Webcam.  And Skyline has other Rome webcams so that we can check out the weather, if only I can remember to check it when it is daylight in Rome!

Heavy Rain (Showers)

So the forecast for Saturday is "Heavy Rain", worse than Friday which is only "Heavy Rain Showers". You can check out what the weather in Glasgow looks like with the St. George Square webcam or with this streaming video of Buchanan Street. (On my apple, I have to depress the mouse button with the cursor on the side scrollbar to keep it from flickering on and off - maybe it is different in windows.)
The Evening Times has traffic webcams. They also have a video tour of the West End called "A Walk on the West Side" (except it is not playing on my apple). I'll check out the rest of the West End videos at work on a Windows machine. The Evening Times layout on the mac is all screwy as well and some of their links aren't active.
OH WAIT!! I just rechecked the weather forecast and now it says that on Saturday there will be "Sunny Intervals" and the "Heavy Rain" has been pushed off till Sunday.