We had lots to do when we woke up today and initially enthusiasm wasn't great as we were recovering from the previous nights exploits. We managed to get to the coloseum and just as we were about to join the queue we were offered a tour for both the coloseum and roman forum at a decent price. We accepted and joined our first tour guide and others outside. Meanwhile the tour tout tried to flog further tickets. The entertainment soon started when people realised t...

We woke up early for Breakfast, it was the start of our first full day in Rome. The first intention was to see the Sistine Chapel. Eddie had a complete stroke of genius after liaising with the hotel receptionist. He went online and pre-booked tickets. Basically for four Euros extra each, it gave us a queue jump plus entry. Just one problem! Start the panic stations... We have to be there for half ten am. Check the time... OMG It's ten am. We end up leaving the ho...

We arrived at the train station quickly and discovered that our journey to Rome would be on a high speed train with a maximum velocity of 250 kph (Right up Dan and Eddies streets). The journey seemed to pass by very quickly as we sped through the Italian countryside. We arrived in Rome at around 4pm. We decided to quickly ditch our bags and to set off to see if we could find a restaurant as good as the previous night in Venice. Unfortunately we were somewhat und...