Last Friday was the long awaited reunion of Rosie and I as travel buddies in Rome! As an added bonus I got to start the weekend early because I went to the airport to collect Rosie instead of going to school - my days of being a good student are well and truly over :-S
From the airport we went to my apartment to eat and relax for a couple of hours - I think I had the sympathy jet lag again! Then we took the tram into Rome and I took Rosie around centro, Piazza Venezia, the Pantheon and Piazza Navona. We ate some gelato, of course and at night went out for pizza with some friends from school. We came home pretty early...we had a busy weekend planned!
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Post arrival snack in the apartment - pasta of course!
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| Afternoon trip to Piazza Venezia |
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| Gelato in Piazza Navona |
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| The Pantheon...after a cappuccino break at Cafe Tazza D'Oro |
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| Inside the Pantheon |
On Saturday we spent the day exploring the Colosseum and the Roman Forum and on Sunday we walked to the Vatican in the morning to get a good spot to see the Pope speak, because why not? - when in Rome...! There was a crazy amount of people in St Peter's Square - I can't imagine how many there must be in the summer. (Un)luckily we had arrived 45 minutes early and so had a prime viewpoint, although we were quite cold by the time the Pope appeared at his window! Unfortunately for Rosie he spoke only in Italian and I'm not a very good teacher/translator! But I understood quite a lot :-)
We had lunch near the Vatican and afterwards went into St Peter's where we decided to climb to the very top of the dome - 551 steps - at first it was easy but later the corridor became very narrow and slanting which was a bit dizzying! For 2 euro extra it was possible to take a lift for some of the way up - but that's not the way we like to do things! Plus, we could buy another gelato with that extra 2 euro!
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| Afternoon at the Roman Forum |
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| Il Colosseo |
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| Inside the Colosseum |
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| Considering the history! |
