With a free day at our disposal, I was keen to get back to the Colluseum and have a better look around than the few minutes we got previously on our tour. We also had a day pass for the Ciao Roma bus tour - which is a "jump on, jump off" system similar to what we had in Paris, so after breakfast we started on our way.
We walked to the Piazza where the closest pick up point for the bus tour was located, but before getting onto it we decided to look around the monument of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a huge building which contained a Museum on the third and fourth level, these are some of the pictures from this location.
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When we were at the top of the monument, we realized the ancient ruins of the original city of Rome were just a few footsteps away, and the Colluseum was on the other side of that, so we wandered through the ruins with these pictures.
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Arriving at the Colluseum again, we walked around the outside, we were both keen to go inside, but the queue was wrapped around about a quarter of the building, so we decided, rather than wait for an hour or so to get inside, to find the bus stop instead.
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Stopping for a quick lunch at a small roadside kiosk near the stop, we watched for the bus, but it didn't arrive at the specified time, so we chatted to an American couple from Chicago who were also waiting. The next bus arrived about 10 minutes after it was supposed to, and we got on, and took these photos from the tour around Rome.
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We got off the bus where we had originally intended to get on, near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and walked through a small fair to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Rome Treaty, which unified Europe into one nation, rather than a series of smaller countries (the actual date occurs this Tuesday, the same day as we fly out to Kuala Lumpur).
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After this we went back to our hotel for a toilet break and rest, the time was about 4PM when we arrived back, and we'd been walking for quite a long time.
Around half an hour later, we went to the closest alley to our hotel, to get some food for dinner and have a general wander - being a Sunday half the stores were open and half were closed, although the guide had previously said everything stays open on Sunday, and Monday is the day where everything would be closed. Regardless of this, we had a Gellato before going to a Pizza shop for a few slices of Pizza, which we bought back to the hotel for consumption.
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Tomorrow we'll be heading out to the Vatican again for a tour around there, when we passed it today it was nowhere near as busy as it was on Saturday, when the Pope gave his speech, so we hope it will be vacated (or at least as vacant as today) for our tour. The afternoon is open so we may go to see another sight called the Spanish Steps, which is a short walk from our Hotel.
Click any of the images above to see them in a larger window; if they refuse to open then right-click and select "Open Link in a new Window" (IE or FireFox in Windows) or control-click (Mac). The navigation buttons will allow you to go back and forth or close the new window. The link to the right will translate the page to any language available by clicking on the appropriate flag. |
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