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Roma , does it meet your expectations
We arrived in Rome after a relatively easy train journey. When we got off the train we decided to walk to the hotel as it was on the same street as the station. Big mistake. The street was HUGE, we were number 413. Our first impressions were not very good as the area was very grotty, smelly and dirty. I dont want to offend anyone, but I have to be …
Day 6
... it; we wouldn’t have been able to move with all those extra people around. The square represents the core of the Vatican City, the smallest state in the world.
This tour took about 2 hours and we then had 45 minutes to shop or grab a bite to eat. Michael and I decided to share a Gelato as it had been reasonably warm and we were not particularly hungry! Back onto the bus and we headed off to our next stop – the Colosseum!
This building ...
First day in Rome
... about 5 blocks to our hotel. We decided to explore a bit by metro but the station looked very run down from the street so I was'nt too keen at first. Also a few homeless people with dogs asleep on the sidewalk and generally it had an unkept untidy feel. But Joel and Aaron went down the broken esculators and came back to report that it looked ...
Buon Natale!
... With a little help from the GPS, and a diligent Mike as navigator, we made it out of town and hit the road for the Amalfi coast.
Stay tuned for more details and photos for the rest of the trip. And there are mass amounts of photos. We apologize for not being able to slim the album down anymore, but it was the first trip with our new camera and we are way excited at how they turned out!
With Love,
Melissa and ...
Roma
... that you were actually here, standing inside the Sistine Chapel.
From the Sistine Chapel the next stop was St Peters Basilica. What can I say? This place is huge. The ornamentation is phenomenal to the point of being totally over the top. The statues are scary and everywhere. The bronze altar was built for a giant. The mosaics put the ones we saw in Istanbul to shame. And the number of people in here was insane! You really had to jostle your way in to see ...