What a day.... Don't know what the temperature ended up at, but it was HOT!!!!! We wandered off this morning and caught the Bus to Piazza Venezia and had a look around at the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento di Roma - a modern history museum in behind the Campidoglio!!! From there we sauntered off to the meeting point for our walking tour! Coincidentally our guide was Valentina, the lovely woman who guided us around The Vatican yesterday!!! We went through The Col...

Yeah .... well, Bwian keeps adding his shots to Facebook, so here's my favorite for the day that I took. Salute!! Xx

Enjoyed a big and great day doing some bus touring and a 1/2 day walking tour of The Vatican. I know many of you have been, but we weren't quite prepared to be so overwhelmed!!! Just AMAZING!! Even our guide who is an archeologist and full blooded Roman kept using the word 'amazing' with genuine appreciation and awe!! Saw the beautiful gardens, the museum section, The Sistine Chapel and St Peter's Basillica. Bwian was very lucky in The Basillica, as he was ...

Here we are on Rome!! After a hot and rocky walk over the rough cobblestones from the station, we made our way to our hotel, not far from Roma Termini. Bwian was convinced we needed a taxi, but I was working on the 'Mueller System' of measurement and said, 'it's not far.....' indeed it was only 500m, but felt further over rough cobblestones in the heat of the day, + a terraced wall on the road that wasn't on the map, that we had to backtrack around!!! Anyway, a...

So, here we are on the fast train to Roma. We arrived at the station in Venice the required 1 hour early, and the earlier train was still sitting at the station, so we were able to change our ticket for the 8:32 instead. Hooray!! We are staying in a hotel about 500m from the main station, so hopefully that will be handy!! Here is a piksha of us at S Marco Square yesterday. It was a very memorable day! They even have stair police, so if you sit on the steps in ...