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var picArray = new Array (new Array (21702,"DSCN0520",1,"Rome, Italy","I had planned to take a run Sunday, but I woke to find that all my walking had afflicted my feet with grape-size blisters, which decency compels me to obscure here. Ever wrap your feet in bubble wrap? That's what walking felt like, when it didn't feel like walking on broken glass."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0522",1,"Rome, Italy","Nonetheless, it didn't take me more than five minutes to open my eyes, put on some pants and be on my way to the Colosseum, where I was first in line for entry."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0523",1,"Rome, Italy","At the Colosseum."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0530",1,"Rome, Italy","At the Colosseum."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0531",1,"Rome, Italy","At the Colosseum."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0533",1,"Rome, Italy","At the Colosseum."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0537",1,"Rome, Italy","\"OK, cue the lions!\""),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0538",1,"Rome, Italy","The real reason the Roman empire fell: Marlboro lights."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0541",1,"Rome, Italy","A bicycle, a door: the travel photographer's gimme shot."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0543",1,"Rome, Italy","In the Trastavere."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0549",1,"Rome, Italy","I unintentionally visited the Vatican for the third day in a row, making me a bad Lutheran who's been there more often than most good Catholics.<br><br>I found an enormous crowd this time in the piazza, and I heard a voice piped over the loudspeakers. It sounded as though someone were speaking in his sleep. After a few minutes, the voice sounded familiar. Finally I recognized it.<br><br>\"Holy shit! It's the pope!\""),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0551",1,"Rome, Italy","Il papa."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0553",1,"Rome, Italy","Il papa."),
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new Array (21702,"DSCN0562",1,"Rome, Italy","It took me three bus rides before I figured out how to pay. As elsewhere in Europe, public transportation in Rome appears to run on the honor system. Riders buy tickets (77 eurocents) that they are supposed to validate in machines on each bus or train. Legend has it that officials occasionally check passengers' tickets and that there is a hefty fine for scofflaws, but I never saw it happen. The honor system would be a sure recipe for bankruptcy in the States, but it seems to work here."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0573",1,"Rome, Italy","Statues near the Olympic Stadium portray classical athletes. I'd say this one captures the physique of the typical marathon runner spot on, but of course I'd say that."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0575",1,"Rome, Italy","I bought my ticket to the Lazio game from a scalper. I was very proud of having talked him down (in Italian!) from 41 euro to 20. I still got hosed and could have done much better at the ticket office, but it's so unusual for me to haggle, let alone haggle successfully and in another language, that it was worth the few euro I overpaid."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0579",1,"Rome, Italy","Roman riot police put on their game faces."),
new Array (21702,"DSCN0582",1,"Rome, Italy","This was the only such toilet that I saw on my trip. Fortunately I had no duty to do."),
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new Array (21702,"DSCN0601",1,"Rome, Italy","After the home team scored to make the score 1-0, two celebratory self-immolations ignited in the far stands. Lazio got lazy, however, and the visiting Chievo quickly quieted the ecstacy by scoring an equalizer, and the game would end in a tie."),

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