Ostia Antica

Today we visited Palatine Hill, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Spanish Steps (by accident), and Ostia Antica. I don't know how far we walked, but it was A LOT!! It is nearly 8:00 p.m. and I'm sure we'll be asleep very soon! When you don't have TV (or even if you do have TV bug you don't understand the language) and no housework or other stuff …

We will loosely translate that as "We came, we saw, we conquered!" First, the Roman Colosseum, then Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum, and lastly Ostia Antica. We are all having so many "pinch-me!" moments, it's difficult to distinguish one from another. Camden was in charge for our …

Let's go back in time! Here in Ostia Antica you can walk through the ruins of a old Roman port town! It's like a maze with a bunch of cool rooms that you can walk through. There's also an observation deck and we saw a prison room! There's an amphitheater and beyond it is the ruins of an old temple! Some of the rooms are blocked off and I may not …

Nice morning for a 2.5 hour drive to Fiumicino where our hotel is located. The hotel is about 3K from the airport but fortunately we have not heard much air traffic over the hotel. The hotel has free underground parking where the car will likely remain until sometime tomorrow when I return it to the airport. On Thursday morning we will take the …

We began yet another grey and dreary morning in Rome(not raining yet), and after a quick breakfast and warm shower, made our way to the metro station. Our goal today: get to and wander about Ostia Antica, the primary port for ancient Rome. To do this we had to transfer to the other metro line and then hop on another train for the final 30 odd km.< …

We slept in until our bodies woke up on their own, around 11. Its amazing how one night on a sofa bed can kill your back…we are both stiff but happy we got good sleep.

Still moving pretty slow, we decided to just do one thing today…Ostia Antica. We caught the metro to a commuter train that goes towards the beach. The train was …

Just outside of Rome is an ancient town called Ostia Antica. We got there using only the Rome transit system.

We were a little tired today as we stayed up till 1:30 to listen to the riders win. Tied for second place. …

Ah finally the exams where over, my first taste of freedom, although I do have to say that for the last 45 minutes of my Russian history module I was definitely on autopilot going over every aspect of what I was going to do once I got to Rome whilst trying to balance that with my thoughts on Nikita Khrushchev's impact on soviet Russia with his …

Es hat heute morgen erst gegen 5 Uhr zu regnen begonnen, nicht allzu stark und ohne viel Wind. Also gemütlich weitergeschlafen und nicht Zelt verspannt :) Kann mir online eine Karte für die Galleria Borghese reservieren. Aber erst für 13 Uhr, nur kein Stress... Heute ist mir sehr nach faul sein. Lese gemütlich die Nachrichten …

We walked so much today, Mario suggested at one point that we should have been wearing pedometers, to clock how many step we had taken! And he's right - last year, we wandered around Rome's Centro Storico to the tune of 11 km, as calculated by Google Maps. Between crisscrossing the ruins at Ostia Antica this morning, and making our way out to …

... of them are destined to be decorations on the Xmas tree. Later, the whole tribe took the Metro and then a train out to Ostia Antica. Ostia (mouth - as the mouth of the Tiber) was the ancient seaport of Roma. It was a wealthy and important town in its ...

... after a quick breakfast and warm shower, made our way to the metro station.  Our goal today:  get to and wander about Ostia Antica, the primary port for ancient Rome.  To do this we had to transfer to the other metro line and then hop on ...

... get a good look at all it had to offer. Today Mum and I travelled South-West to the ancient Roman port town of Ostia (Ostia Antica). It has really taken a hammering over the centuries and it showed. The Papacy fleeced the place of anything that wasn't ...

... so we aren’t exactly sure what our bus driver was doing.  We finally got off the bus and it was raining, as usual.  Ostia Antica is an abandoned city that used to be a port that sat on the edge of the Tevere (Tiber River) but over time ...

... hopped in cab and were there in 20 minutes.  The site was huge, described as similar to Pompeii without the people.  Ostia Antica was the harbor for ancient Rome.  It consists of old warehouses, an amphitheater and various stores.  We ...

... the streets because sometimes they flooded the streets to clean them.  But the chariots could still go by through the stepping stones. Ostia Antica was once the port of Rome though it is not connected to Rome.  It had lots of mosaics and cool ...

... in eine Strassenbahn ein, die mich an Lateran und Colosseum vorbeibringt. Endstation ist bei Piramide und ich beschließe spontan nach Ostia Antica zu fahren, wenn ich schon beim entsprechenden Bahnhof bin. In Rom beginnt es außerdem gerade zu ...

One of the 'spare' days we had in Rome we took a trip to a place described in the Rick Steve's Rome book: Ostia Antica.  This place is an ancient river port that was conquered by Rome (its first colony and only 15K away) and provided it with grain, ...

... A line & then we got the B line & got of at a southern stop where we could catch another train in the direction of Ostia Antica. Jon thought it was at separate train station so we wandered a bit but then we ended up back at the metro station. It ...

... I when we put on sun screen as if to say "what is that?" haha, seriously. Our last stop of the day was at Ostia Antica, a preserved ancient Rome city that used to serve as the main trading port for Rome. It was beautiful. About half of it was cleaned ...