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That's right, it's a palindrome! It's one of the many symbolic "curiosities" we've come across in the past few days. I know it seems like an eternity since we last wrote, but I can't believe we've already been here four days and leave to go to our WWOOFING host tomorrow! The past few days we've seen …

So much for 8 hrs sleep, despite best intentions and a relaxed agenda we seem to fill days and nights up too much! Another glorious day and off to conquer the Vatican which we were warned you can loose a day easily - and we did. Firstly we checked with an optometrist a few doors down if he could do replacement glasses for mine that broke in Nice …

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Another hot day in Rome - 35oC. We had an early start as our entry tickets for the Vatican were booked for just after 8am. So onto the bus and off we went and it was so nice to be met by our guide Alessia - very pretty and very knowledgeable - and marched straight up to the head of the queue. Inside we visited the Map Gallery, the Tapestry Gallery …

Major crime in the City of Rome - selling unbrellas! What a sight watching two men hitting each other with their unbrellas (I think one invaded the others selling spot!!) Not long after watched the Police on motorbikes chasing two more unbrella selling men down the street! Suspect dumped his unbrellas and ran! It was almost successful arrest.

We took the Metro to Vatican City, the smallest country in the world. A walk through the Vatican museum revealed a small portion of the treasures within. The Sistine Chapel was breathtaking. St. Peter's was as well.
We took a stuffy bus ride to the Colosseum. After lunch, we toured the 2 thousand year old ruins. Afterwards, we walked through …

March 14:


1) Since there was a strike until 1:00, Bridge and I decided to take this as a sign to slow down and enjoy a good nights rest… We were fortunate to receive a continental breakfast full of croissants and nutella (one of the many benefits of the strike), where we met a lively older …

We were up by 9am today and started with breakfast in the Alessandro downtown hostel as it was only 3 euros, disappointingly no fry-up but can't complain at 3 euros. After a quick breakfast we headed out early after pre-booking a tour for later on in the day around the Vatican. We started walking towards the Vatican on foot (as it was around an …

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Anyway, I celebrated my Birthday this day by visiting the Vatican. We woke up early as we had to collect our tickets at the appropriate time, we had chosen 9.30am so we could go on elsewhere later.
The Vatican Museums were amazing with …

We arrived at Darryl and Anna's house about 8pm. The first night was very relaxed, Anna made us a delicious dinner and then we went down the road to their local Gelati bar which was packed full of people (always a good sign!)

The next morning we got up and headed into the city centre and had a stroll around before meeting Anna at 5 to go …

... ;t see everything, I feel that I saw enough of what I wanted to see. There are quite a few very impressive churches in town, but the Vatican was just a bit too much for me. I went into the Basilica (free to enter) and after that, I didn’t feel like ...

... . Saturday we were up and ready to make the most of our last day.  The plan: the Spanish steps, Piazza del Poplo, the Vatican city and anything else we could spot on the way and a rendavous with American friends I had met in Avignon. We were due out ...

... perfect for shots of the Colosseum so we snapped a few. We also signed up for another tour, that will show us around the Vatican tomorrow. From the Colosseum we walked back to the Hotel where we researched a place to eat for the evening. We first asked ...

... days. The latter part of the week turned very wet and colder so we hit the museums and Vatican City and some ancient churches. The National Museum of Rome contains lots of busts and statues and presents, through the leaders of the day, the history of ...

We were off to the Vatican amongst other things today, but not the Sistine chapel - the queue was a complete nightmare!  We had a mosey around St Peters Sq, then decided to go into St Peter's Basilica, which was actually free to get into.  The ...

... vacation time not wasting away hours sleeping. An old but new experience altogether... There were many highlights, but I think The Vatican Museum including the Sistine Chapel beat the lot. What we didn't expect though were the hordes of tourists. It ...

... the mausoleum.  It is an amazing building that was turned into the crypt for a number of popes and was also the Vatican treasury. Left aligned photo tag: View from the terrazzo on top fantastic.  Time is running short so head up towards ...

· Rome, Italy · GMT +1:00 hour Rome. If you want to And so onto the Italian capital. Just like Pisa I doubt this place needs much of an introduction. Pretty much everyone knows it's a place with 2,700 years of history and the place where modern ...

... like the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, the massive Pantheon just to mention a few.   To also do justice to the Vatican City we also arranged a guided tour through the Vatican museum and St Peters Basilica. The museum was simply mind-boggling to say ...

... of the demonstration through the city, we went down to the underground to see if we could catch a tube back to the Vatican City but it was thick with people as there were no public buses running because of the demonstration. There were Police Security ...