Roman Holiday pt 5

Constantine's arch, in honor of the battle he won with God's help and then he legalized Christianity.

David and I with Julius Ceaser in front of the place he was killed

Here we are in the Coloseum

SPQR  The Senate and People built this

the Vatican at night

Day 5

Wednesday we hopped on our bus and went to the Colosseo and Palatino.  This is the ancient part of town.  Our tour said to meet our guide at the bus stop at 9:45.  By 10:15 I had given up but David suggested five more minutes and sure enough our tour guide who was on her own schedule came.  We walked past the Arch of Costantine (leader of Rome who legalized Christianity), past the Colloseum, up the ancient ruins (finding relics each leader left of themselves), then up to Campidoglio.  Then we went back to the Colloseum to tour the inside.  The lines in the morning are huge, with about an hour or so wait.  So tour groups stand around outside trying to get you to take their tour for an extra $13 (it is $12 to get in the Colloseum) and they will take you up to the front with very little wait.  If you pay attention though, there is a middle line.  The middle line is for those who are will to pay $5 more for the video or audio tour.  We took that one but found you can’t share headphones because only one earpiece works.  That night we took the night tour.  I had bought a banana/chocolate gelato, it was my favorite (I had several different gelatos while there), but we couldn’t get on the bus with it.  So I ate quickly then off we were for the night tour of Rome.  Very pretty, but we were getting tired of the traffic and sirens.   I think three days of busy had done us in.