We left Venice early Monday morning, arrived in Rome at lunch time and spent the afternoon washing clothes and shopping up on food and drinks for our whole 3 days in Rome. Yesterday morning we got up early and made our way a couple hundred meters from our B&B to Vatican city to climb the sistine chapel as early as possible to avoid the ridiculous line ups that begin to form as early as 9am. We walked straight in and began climbing just after 8:30 and by the time we left at 10:30 the lineup was atleast 2 hours long and about 35degrees. Suckers. Vatican city was pretty amazing and I would have to say that the Sistine chapel is the best chapel I've ever seen. I took a lot or photos including some panoramas from the top so when I find a computer I'll put some up of course. We then spent the next 8 hours walking almost non stop around Rome and I was not disappointed at all. The mercury soared to 41 but it must have been atleast 50 in the sun so by 3pm I had drank 2 cans of coke a powerade 2 bottles of water and a peach juice. I think I took more photos yesterday than any other single day of the trip so far so expect to see them soon.
As for today, were sticking with our plan of avoiding the big lineup by heading to the colosseum half an hour before it opens so we can head in straight up. Then the rest of the day is for exploring the other half of Rome we didn't cover yesterday and Thursday were heading to Pisa for a night then to Milan for a night or 2 then up to Switzerland for some more fun times!
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