Exciting adventures of an Artist:
Mary Smith had a degree in social geography from the
University of Edinburgh and one of her professors apparently was very keen on
her. When he heard that she and Jo Parrott were going to travel in Europe
he gave Mary a list of contacts in several countries. He never said, but
Mary thought he had worked for some clandestine department in the UK government
in the war.
When they were in Rome, they went with a tour group to the Colosseum. Both girls hated the crowd and felt it spoiled the atmosphere. Mary got in touch with one of the contacts she had been given at a university in Rome and said they wanted to go to the Colosseum when nobody was there. One of the history professors had the right contacts and took them there at some ungodly hour just as the sun was coming up.
Jo said it was an amazing experience to stand alone in that huge space and let your imagination run on the horror and unspeakable cruelty that had occurred right where she was standing.
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