We were up at the unearthly hour of 3:00am to finish squeezing all our belongings into our suitcases and then drag them to the Metro Station. We got to the Metro station with about 18 minutes to spare until the 4:08am train was due to depart. The train duly arrived and departed on time with the usual German efficiency. We had to make an intercha...

Our final day in Rome dawned and we headed out early to get to the Vatican Museum as close to its opening time as possible. We managed to get there just on 9:00am, about 15 minutes after its scheduled opening time. There was a relatively small queue to get in so we thought things were looking up. We got into the foyer for a security check, a lit...