Rome Part II

Like it how I used Roman Numerals in the title, huh, yeeeeah! I should be going to sleep, but what the hey, if the pictures go up they go up. I like root beer, mmmmm.





Well, this is not the old city, this is pretty much the one and only picture from the Vatican that was landscape, lazy. This is the hall of maps, just imagining how long it would have taken to accurately paint just one of these things, and the whole hall is filled with them. It was also the Popes 80th b-day the day before we went inside, we saw him, I think.

Here is some old stuff, I think lots of people take pictures of these particular columns, they are nice to look at, and the weather was great too, as you can see. Be jealous.

Here we are in front of the Coliseum (that spelling looks so wrong, but the spell checker is accurate, right?) We had a bad experience purchasing the audio guide for the Vatican and so were hesitant about doing it again. The deal breaker: we got to skip the line and get in right away, even though we had to buy two audio guides it was worth it.

The inside. Most of it is ruined, they took stones from it for the longest time, but they re-did part of the flooring, and left the other sections open so you could see down into the inner workings. Might be hard to see, but the small strips of lighter coloured stone in the middle aisle are actually grooves for the elevators, cool huh? The audio guide was much more informative here then at the Vatican.

An outside shot (thanks captain obvious), the thing is huge. That is all the pictures I am allowed in one post I guess, so next time maybe a bit more of Rome, or if not we are off to Prague.