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Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, south of Athens,
at sunset.
Rome 2006
The Palace of Domitian, overlooking the Forum
The Circus Maximus, once Rome's chariot racing track
The Temple of Portumus, a river god, in Rome
By the statue of Marcus Aurelius outside the Capitoline Museum, Rome
The Arch of Titus in the Roman Forum, seen from the Palatine Hill
The sorry remians of the Temple of Saturn, once Imperial Rome's public treasury, sacred to the father of Jupiter
The team take a well-earned rest by the Colosseum
Reliving the glamour and the gore of Rome's theatre of blood.
View from the upper levels
Tori gets friendly with a centurion, while Karina gets throttled by a senator
Trajan's Column, a vertical "comic strip" in marble depicting the Roman conquest of Dacia
The "Wedding Cake" - an extravagant memorial to Victor Emmanuel, the first King of a united Italy.
The front of the Pantheon - Rome's oldest Church, once a pagan temple to all the gods, boasting the world's oldest unsupported dome
The Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican City
The magnificent Trevi Fountain, completed in 1762 - but fed, like many of Rome's great fountains, by the Roman waterworks of the Aqua Virgo
The boys soak up the timely sunshine on the island of Capri - once a fortress and a pleasure-palace for the notorious Tiberius Caesar
The boat trip.
The Capri coastline
Naples nightlife, and the best pizzas in the world!
Panoramic view over Herculaneum, a Roman town buried by a mudslide after Vesuvius erupted in 79AD
The dead of Pompeii. Archaeologists poured plaster-of-paris into the cavities left in the soil by the corpses of those who died, to create these haunting casts of the townsfolk's dying moments
In a wealthy Roman's townhouse in Pompeii
Greece 2005
The Theseum at night
The Parthenon looking stunning
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
The Lads on the Acropolis
Catching some rays
View across Aigina
Meeting the Sphinx
Mean and moody
Lesser known gods and goddesses …
The Dancing Queen strikes a pose
Dude,
where’s my tan?
In a Tolon taverna
Icon in a Greek Orthodox convent
Stunning view from Delphi
The famous "Lion Gate" at Mycenae
Lillie entertains the crowd at the Epidaurus theatre
Hadrian’s
Wall 2005
The Altar of Mithras at Carrawburgh
Robin Hood's Sycamore
Sleeping in at Housesteads
Lockers in the changing rooms at the Chesters Bath House
Outstanding natural beauty. The scenery's quite nice, too
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