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We are staying at the Mercure Hotel Corso Trieste which is about 5km out of Rome city and a lovely quiet hotel in a very quaint little street with a church at the end of the street, and the metro station is about a 5 minute walk, but on our way to the station this morning we found part of the main town and called in and had a coffee fix, then back on the train line to the main central station as we had decided to forgo Venice and stay in Rome until Sunday and we needed to reserve our seats for the overnight train to Paris, well this turned out to be a nightmare, first of all you must go to this ticket machine select what you want and it spits out a ticket, and wait for your number to come up on the screen, all good you say, but no after a while I realized we were in the wrong section, so go and get another ticket and we wait and we wait, after an hour or so we gave up, in the mean time we got talking to a lovely couple from Sydney and as they were on their way to Naples and not coming back they gave us their last day ticket for the hop on hop off bus, bonus!!!
We completed the round trip and decided to get off at the Colosseum first, and it didn't disappoint, it looks exactly like all the photos you ever see but better, I am in awe of the structure and so glad that it has been left as is and the only modern changes are the steel railings along the walk ways.
Back on the bus and the next stop for us was the Trevi Fountain, well what a no show that was, the fountain was drained, there are steel scaffolds all around, a bridge has been put across where the water would have been and you are allowed to walk across to enable you take photos of the few statures at the bottom of the fountain, apparently they are doing maintenance and cleaning the fountain, I never got to throw coins in the fountain, so we left, and found a fantastic little restaurant and sat and had a pizza, awesome,
By this time the day was getting late and we headed back to the station to try once again to reserve our seats, determined to stay as long as it took and it took just on an hour, mission accomplished we headed back to the hotel.
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